Iceland has its own Loch Ness Monster. Not a lot of people know that. They call it “The Wyrm”. The elusive creature is supposed to live in Lagarfljot, a very deep, glacial-fed, freshwater lake near Egilsstadir on the west coast of Iceland. It was first sighted in 1345 and described as a serpent with humps.  A myth grew up that it incubated gold at the bottom of the fjord. The skrýmsli (monster) was seen in  1750, and reported to be a giant golden slug (“brekkusnegill”). Or, in Norwegian, a “strandvorm”. Something strange was videoed in 2012.  A boat laying telephone cable detected a large shifting mass in deep waters. There have been random sightings of a creature like an obese seal and a poison-spitting skate. Some believe it to be an amphibious dragon.

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