Gefjon was sometimes represented as her sonвЂ™s wife, but this was a later perversion. She was also the goddess of agriculture, and, as such, was portrayed tilling land with a plow drawn by oxen.

Gefjon 'The Snow Queen' was deified in Teutonic Mythology as the goddess of nature, who, unmarried, also presided over virgins and received the souls of unmarried women upon their deaths. The myth of the babe in an oar-less boat has its origin in the ancient practice of the Teutonic People of setting adrift unwanted infants and leaving them to their fate. Othni was the personification of the Teutonic deity Odin (Woten Votan), who, according to mythology, originally led the migration of the Aesir, that is, the Battle-Axe People, to Europe in the Bronze Age and founded the ancient kingdom of Scania, circa 1500BC. King Gylfi was the last male-line descendant of Othni, the first King of Scania. The infant was adopted by Queen Gefjon, called 'The Snow Queen', the childless daughter and successor of the ancient Scandinavian king Gylfi. The Scyldings, according to mythology, descended from Scyld 'Scefing', a babe of unknown parentage or origin found lying asleep on a 'sheaf of corn' in a boat that drifted 'across the sea' to the coast of Scania.

The Scyldings conquered Denmark and transferred their seat there and gave Denmark its second dynasty. The Scyldings were the successors of the original dynasty of Scania, the Boreades, which had itself become extinct. The dynasty was possibly over a thousand years old when it was overthrown around the beginning of our common era by the Scyldings (Skjoldungas) who came from the Swedish province of Skaane. The first Danish dynasty was of the original Vanir race of Scandinavia. The early Danish kingdom was centered in Zealand, Falster, and Laaland, and its kings sat at Leire, near Roskilde, in Zealand.

Skjold king of the danes