Snitchey, if ever you were led away by man, take my word for it you are led away by Craggs; and if ever I can read a double purpose in mortal eye, I can read it in Craggs’s eye.--C. Dickens, _The Battle of Life_, ii. (1846). =Snodgrass= (_Augustus_), M.P.C., a poetical young man, who travels about with Mr. Pickwick, “to inquire into the source of the Hampstead ponds.” He marries Emily Wardle.--C. Dickens, _The Pickwick Papers_ (1836). =Snoring= (_Great_). “Rector of Great Snoring,” a dull, prosy preacher. =Snorro Sturleson=, last of the great Icelandic scalds or court poets. He was author of the _Younger Edda_, in prose, and of the _Heimskringla_, a chronicle, in verse, of the history of Norway, from the earliest times to the year 1177. The _Younger Edda_ is an abridgement of the _Rhythmical Edda_ (see SÆMUND SIGFUSSON). The _Heimskringla_ appeared in 1230, and the _Younger Edda_ is often called the _Snorro Edda_. Snorro Sturleson incurred the displeasure of Hakon, king of Norway, who employed assassins to murder him (1178-1241). ⁂ The _Heimskringla_ was translated into English by Samuel Laing, in 1844. =Snout= (_Tom_), the tinker who takes part in the “tragedy” of _Pyrămus and Thisbe_, played before the duke and duchess of Athens “on their wedding day at night.” Next to Peter Quince and Nick Bottom, the weaver, Snout was by far the most self-important man of the troupe. He was cast for Pyramus’s father, but has nothing to say, and does not even put in an appearance during the play.--Shakespeare, _Midsummer Night’s Dream_ (1592). =Snow King= (_The_), Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, king of Sweden, killed in the Thirty Years’ War, at the battle of Lutzen. The cabinet of Vienna said, in derision of him, “The Snow King is come, but he can live only in the north, and will melt away as soon as he feels the sun” (1594, 1611-1632). At Vienna he was called, in derision, “The Snow King” who was kept together by the cold, but would melt and disappear as he approached a warmer soil.--Dr. Crichton, _Scandinavia_ (“Gustavus Adolphus,” ii. 61). _Snow King_ (_The_), Frederick, elector palatine, made king of Bohemia by the Protestants in the autumn of 1619, but defeated and set aside in the following autumn. The winter king, king in times of frost, a snow king, altogether soluble in the spring, is the name which Frederick obtained in German histories.--Carlyle. =Snow Queen= (_The_), Christiana, queen of Sweden (1626, 1633-1689). The Princess Elizabeth of England, who married Frederick V., elector palatine, in 1613, and induced him to accept the crown of Bohemia in 1619. She was crowned with her husband, October 25, 1619, but fled, in November, 1620, and was put under the ban of the empire in 1621. Elizabeth was queen of Bohemia during the time of snow, but was melted by the heat of the ensuing summer.