to rescind those laws. Then Saxo introduces Paul the Deacon's account of the origin of the Lombards which he summarizes. Paul the Deacon and made the Lombards to have been originally from an island of Scandza in the far north. According to Saxo this famine and the departure of many Danes explained why in his own day much of the Danish land was overrun with forests in which stone piles alone showed that the land had once been cultivated fields. Snow was succeeded by his son Biorn. Alternative spellings Alternative Anglicizations are Ægir: Aegir ; Drífa: Drifa ; Fön: Fönn ; Hlér: Hler ; Jökul: Iökul ; Lǣ: Lee ; Mjöl: Mjol, Miöll ; Snær: Snaer, Snœr, Snow. Mythological kings of Denmark Personifications in Norse mythology Snow in culture fi:Snaer