before the Lagarfljót worm there was Skorradalsvatn — the older one nobody talks about

Everyone fixates on the east-Iceland worm but the Skorradalsvatn version is older and basically the SAME story, which to me is the actual creepy part — it got copied onto Lagarfljót later. Same setup: gold kept with a black slug (brekkusnegill), both swell up, you panic and chuck the thing in the la……