Konrad Gesner’s version of Magnus’s sea serpent as featured in his Historiae Animalium of 1558.
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.
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Sea Serpent
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Date
1558
From
Historiae Animalium
