Two vignettes featured in Magnus’s History of the Northern Peoples (1555). Top: The sea serpent. Bottom: some kind of giant lobster.
Featured on PDR in the essay Olaus Magnus’ Sea Serpent
The terrifying Great Norway Serpent, or Sea Orm, is the most famous of the many influential sea monsters depicted and described by 16th-century ecclesiastic, cartographer, and historian Olaus Magnus. Joseph Nigg explores the iconic and literary legacy of the controversial serpent from its beginnings in the medieval imagination to modern cryptozoology.
Also appearing in the essay…
Sea Serpent and Giant Lobster
Artist
Date
1555
From
History of the Northern Peoples
