What Does the Lindworm Do?

In legends, lindworms are often very large and eat cattle and human corpses, sometimes invading churchyards and eating the dead from cemeteries.

Can a lindworm fly?

Lindwyrms, also known as Lindworms/Lindwurms, have a serpentine body with one pair of legs, or forelimbs, and may be winged or wingless. Some Lindwyrms are unable to fly even when they have wings.

Is a lindworm a dragon?

In Norse mythology, Lindworms (Old Norse linnormr 'ensnaring snake', Norwegian linnorm 'dragon', German Lindwurm 'dragon') were serpent-like dragons with two arms and no legs.

Alexander Ross

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