Sweden once made a lake monster a PROTECTED SPECIES — Storsjön, and the runestone that binds it

Storsjön in Jämtland, 90 m deep, Östersund on the east shore. The monster, Storsjöodjuret, first shows up in a 1635 manuscript and the framing is wild: a sorcerer named Kettil Runske supposedly bound the serpent in the depths with a spell he carved into the Frösö runestone — northernmost runestone i……