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large, it had broken open the chest. Frightened, she threw both it and the gold into the lake, where the heath-worm continued to grow and terrorize the countryside, spitting poison and killing people and animals. Two Finns were commissioned to destroy it and retrieve the gold, but they only managed to tie its head and tail to the bottom of the lake; killing it was made impossible because of a still larger dragon that lurked underneath. Appearances of the creature in the open was considered a portent for harsh season or fodder grass
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from the mountain sides and forests also collects in tangles that can look like some sort of monster. According to Helgi Hallgrímsson, an
Icelandic biologist who has extensively studied the lake, both of these could explain some but not all of the sightings, while traditional legendary material could
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and witnessed by at least three farmers. It had a head like a seal's, and subsequently one hump appeared in view, then another. A sketch was produced by one of the witnesses, and Baring-Gould printed a replica of it. The author considered the description to bear an uncanny resemblance to the creature
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The
Lagarfljót Worm has been sighted several times in modern times, including in 1963 by the head of the Icelandic National Forest Service, Sigurður Blöndal, and in 1998 by a teacher and students at Hallormsstaðir School. In 1983, contractors laying a telephone cable measured a large shifting mass
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made it appear to propel forward. The phenomenon could be explained by a flimsy inanimate object (such as a frozen fish net) being moved by rapid current. Despite this, in 2012, an
Icelandic panel voted by a 7-to-6 margin to authenticate the video as genuine, awarding money to the filmmaker. This
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The first sighting is generally conceded to be the 1345 "marvel" seen at
Lagarfljót century chronicle, and recorded in the medieval annals of the 15th century. The serpent at the lake has been mentioned in 16th century world maps, a 17th century chronicle, and a baroque poem from the 17th century
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The girl had been given a gold ring by her mother, and was instructed that the best way to profit from the gold was to place it under a heath-worm (black slug). She did so, and put it in the top of her linen chest for a few days, but then found that the little worm (serpent, dragon) had grown so
208:, published a video thought to show the Lagarfljót Worm swimming in snow-covered icy water. But according to a frame-by-frame analysis of the footage by Finland-based researcher Miisa McKeown, the filmed object actually made no progress through the water, although
180:"This cable that was specially engineered so it wouldn’t kink was wound in several places and badly torn and damaged in 22 different places . . . . I believe we dragged the cable directly over the belly of the beast. Unless it was through its mouth".
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or 7.5325 km × 5 = 37.6 km. Half this is 18.8 kilometres (11.7 mi). The wyrm's website nearly concurs, stating "half of nearly forty kilometres". Jón
Thorkelsson and Herrmann merely note that this equals 2.5
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Iceland in 1862, and he collected a recent report. One week before the aughor, Mr. Martin and the "Yankee" arrived at the lake, and the appearances happened the day before that.
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The skrýmsli (monster) was seen at the lake in 1749–1750, and the media have reported sightings into the 20th and 21st century, including a 2012 video supposedly showing the creature swimming.
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near the eastern shore when performing preliminary depth measurements, and when they later retrieved the non-functional cable, found that it was broken where it had lain over the anomaly:
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remarked that there were non-believers of the worm in his time in the 19th century who offered the rational explanation that clumps of foam drifting past could have misled witnesses.
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Lagarfljót, mesta vatnsfall Íslands: staðhættir, náttúra og saga
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the light differently than in surrounding air and create
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Island in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart: T. Land und Leute
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1248:Zeitschrift des Vereins für Volkskunde
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310:Qualiscunque descriptio Islandiae
2068:Scandinavian legendary creatures
1671:Cleasby & Vigfusson (1874),
1520:Þjoðsögur og munnmæli: nýtt safn
1334:
1196:. In Halldór Hermannsson (ed.).
940:"Is That You, Lagarfljótsormur?"
888:Chasing Monsters in East-Iceland
504:Selurinn og skatan í Lagarfljóti
99:[ˈlaːɣarˌfljoutsˌɔrmʏr̥]
2039:Íslenzkar Þjóðsögur og Æfintýri
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1673:An Icelandic-English Dictionary
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1745:Iceland: its scenes and sagas
1468:Acta Philologica Scandinavica
1180:Einar Ólafur Sveinsson (2003)
1151:Einar Ólafur Sveinsson (2003)
1110:Einar Ólafur Sveinsson (2003)
1077:Islandske annaler indtil 1578
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625:explain some of the stories.
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1993:. Reykjavík: Skrudda, 2005.
1163:Halldór Hermannsson (1926).
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1813:The Folk-Stories of Iceland
1385:"Hundrað kall frá kónginum"
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224:"There are many stories of
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2033:Jón Árnason (April 1997).
1428:, pp. 80–81, p. 92n;
1370:idenskabelige meddellelser
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448:The legend that keeping a
1963:The Serpent of Lagarfljót
1757:Davíð Erlingsson (1999).
1424:, pp. cxxiii–cxxiv;
886:Sveinn Birkir Björnsson,
535:Skrimsl of Skorradalsvatn
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220:Literary and oral records
184:A sightseeing boat named
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2035:"Ormurinn í Lagarfljóti"
1553:Stefán Ólafsson (1885).
1283:, pp. cxxiii–cxxiv.
1136:. W. Engelmann. p.
559:reported in the annals.
517:A one-humped "monster" (
415:, with some elements of
350:A folktale published by
317:De mirabilibus Islandiae
110:, a lake by the town of
95:Icelandic pronunciation:
1961:—— (2007).
1916:—— (1972).
1897:—— (1866).
1866:—— (1977).
1487:Sagas of Ragnar Lodbrok
1310:Davíð Erlingsson (1999)
900:The Reykjavík Grapevine
811:Nordic Adventure Travel
644:Theatrum Orbis Terrarum
473:Serpent, skate and seal
152:Description and habitat
1869:The Lagerflojt Serpent
1830:Ormurinn í Lagarfljóti
1192:Gísli Oddsson (1917).
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1989:Helgi Hallgrímsson.
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1905:George E. J. Powell
1662:, pp. 346–347.
1660:Baring-Gould (1863)
1641:, pp. 344–345.
1639:Baring-Gould (1863)
1627:Baring-Gould (1863)
1617:, pp. 344–346.
1615:Baring-Gould (1863)
1404:, pp. 103–104.
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525:Sabine Baring-Gould
481:"Rönkufótsríma" by
186:Lagarfljótsormurinn
146:Sabine Baring-Gould
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2063:Icelandic folklore
2008:Maurer, Konrad von
1924:Jacqueline Simpson
1414:Jón Árnason (1862)
1265:Jón Árnason (1862)
1030:Jón Árnason (1862)
1012:Carry On Icelandic
893:2008-09-14 at the
840:2009-02-07 at the
807:"River Lagarfljot"
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529:Jacqueline Simpson
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340:Norwegian language
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1999:978-9979-772-43-9
1763:Ó Catháin, Séamas
1759:Lysaght, Patricia
1724:, pp. 34–35.
1449:, p. cxxiii.
1432:, pp. 96–97.
1342:Ormar og skrímsli
1339:The full text of
1166:Two Cartographers
990:, 24 August 2014
914:Radford, Benjamin
862:February 7, 2009.
847:Destination Truth
787:February 2, 2012
747:drittehalb Meilen
629:Explanatory notes
618:optical illusions
376:), or rather the
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170:Loch Ness Monster
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