Sketches illustrating Lee’s theory on what lay behind the sighting of many sea serpents, featured in his Sea Monsters Unmasked (1883).
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…
The Animal Which Edge Probably Saw
Date
1883
From
Sea Monsters Unmasked
