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The name stoor worm may be derived from the Old Norse Storðar-gandr, an alternative name for Jörmungandr, the world or Midgard Serpent of Norse mythology, [1] [2] Stoor or stour was a term used by Scots in the latter part of the 14th century to describe fighting or battles; it could also be applied to "violent conflicts" of the weather elements. [3]
The Worm of Sockburn, of 14th-century English legend. The Worm of Linton, of 12th-century Scottish legend. The Laidley Worm of Bamburgh. The Mongolian Death Worm, a cryptozoological creature reported to exist in the Gobi Desert. The Stoor worm, of Orcadian folklore. Minhocão (legendary creature) - an earthworm or fish-like creature of ...
Assipattle and the Stoor Worm is an Orcadian folktale relating the battle between the eponymous hero and a gigantic sea serpent known as the stoor worm. The tale was preserved by 19th-century antiquarian Walter Traill Dennison , and retold by another Orcadian folklorist, Ernest Marwick , in a 20th-century version that integrates Dennison's ...
Of Northumbrian legend. Worm hill dragon: 700 AD the Anglo-Saxons settled and called it "Wruenele" this translates as "Wruen" worm, reptile or dragon and "ele" hill. According to local folklore the hill at Knotlow was the lair of a dragon and the terraces around it were made by the coils of its tail. Knotlow is an ancient volcanic vent and this ...
The stoor worm, or Mester Stoor Worm, was a gigantic evil sea serpent of Orcadian folklore, capable of contaminating plants and destroying animals and humans with its putrid breath. It is probably an Orkney variant of the Norse Jörmungandr , also known as the Midgard Serpent, or world serpent, and has been described as a sea dragon.
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The book is set in 1919. The hatchlings of the book echo the horrors of war. [1]McCaughrean uses various creatures from English, Irish, Manx, Orcadian, Scottish, and Slavic folklore and mythology, including the bean-nighe, bugganes, the Domovoy, merrows, the neck, the nuckelavee, the Stoor Worm, and ushteys.
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