Snio
Family: Danes · Role: king · First appears: Book Eight · Part 13
Life events
- Snio succeeded his father Siwald as king.(Book Eight · Part 13)
- With: Siwald (father of Snio)
- “The next king was SIWALD. His son SNIO took vigorously to roving in his father's old age”
- Snio defeated Eskil and Alkil and reunited Skaane with Denmark.(Book Eight · Part 13 · 📍 Skaane)
- Snio sent secret messengers to seek a meeting with the daughter of the King of the Goths.(Book Eight · Part 13)
- “At last he conceived a passion for the daughter of the King of the Goths; it was returned, and he sent secret messengers to seek a chance of meeting her.”
- Snio invaded Gothland to avenge his messengers' deaths.(Book Eight · Part 13 · 📍 Gothland)
- “Snio, wishing to avenge their death, invaded Gothland.”
- Snio defeated the King of the Goths, who had to surrender his kingdom to the Danes.(Book Eight · Part 13)
- “The result was that the King of the Goths was beaten by reason of the ill-success of his defenders, and had to quit his kingdom for the Danes.”
- Snio carried off the queen, who escaped under pretence of bathing and took her husband's treasures.(Book Eight · Part 13 · 📍 Bocheror)
- “And when Snio had been told all this by the beggar, he contrived to carry the queen off in a vessel; for she got away under pretence of bathing, and took her husband's treasures.”
- Snio abolished drinking-bouts and prohibited preparing drink from grain during the famine.(Book Eight · Part 13)
- “He abolished drinking-bouts, and decreed that no drink should be prepared from gram, thinking that the bitter famine should be got rid of by prohibiting needless drinking, and that plentiful food could be levied as a loan on thirst.”
- Snio revoked his edict against drinking after a slave mocked it.(Book Eight · Part 14)
- “This witty quibbling turned the anger of the king into shame; and when he saw that his ordinance for the general good came home in mockery to himself, he thought no more of the public profit, but revoked the edict, relaxing his purpose sooner than anger his subjects.”
- Biorn succeeded Snio.(Book Eight · Part 16)
- With: Biorn (successor of Snio)
- “Snio was succeeded by BIORN;”
Book Eight · Part 13
- parent: Siwald (father of Snio) “His son SNIO took vigorously to roving in his father's old age, and not only preserved the fortunes of his country, but even restored them, lessened as they were, to their former estate.”
- enemies with Eskil “Likewise, when he came to the sovereignty, he crushed the insolence of the champions Eskil and Alkil, and by this conquest reunited to his country Skaane, which had been severed from the general jurisdiction of Denmark.”
- enemies with Alkil “Likewise, when he came to the sovereignty, he crushed the insolence of the champions Eskil and Alkil, and by this conquest reunited to his country Skaane, which had been severed from the general jurisdiction of Denmark.”
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Extracted from the original text of The Danish History, Books I–IX. Made with Rho MD.