A depiction of a sea-serpent based on a witness’s sketch, as featured in Pontoppidan’s Natural History of Norway (1753).
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
Date
1753
From
Natural History of Norway
