Gustavus Adolphus, of Sweden. (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: Seandinavia, vol. ii. p. 61.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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