the Orkney worm that supposedly BECAME Iceland (Mester Stoor Worm)

Grew up half in Kirkwall and my gran told this one like it was local news. The Mester Stoor Worm — biggest sea serpent in the whole Norse-Scots tradition, basically the Midgard serpent that drifted north and got an Orkney accent. Its breath was so foul it rotted crops and killed beasts and folk for ……