#lindorm

[filurig]

soo this little silly is kind of a thing i made cuz of a class in uni. but yes a silly lindwurm but they have been Realed... head and feet are 3d printed/painted with acrylics while the body is needle felted!

theyre not a super solid character or anything but actually they sort of are bcs they are a minor character in pareidolia. But i just thought it would be funny to make a lindwurm model especially with their weird long face

[surulaulu]

Colourful wyrm 🐲🌹

[dwollfieldnotes]

Lindworm/Lindorm

Scandinavian Folk-Lore: Illustrations of the Traditional Beliefs of the Northern Peoples by William A. Craigie (1896)

-Live in waste-places [wastelands? Like places where people don't or can't live] -May wrap themselves around churches and not budge -Start out life small, indistinguishable from normal snakes -One had brindled scales -Grow very quickly by drinking milk. Will spare the person who gave them milk as a youngling when they're an adult -Eat cattle and horses and people -Dig up corpses from churchyards to eat -In addition to their usual fare, they may eat all sorts of plant material: young shoots, grass, wooden crosses, etc. [this one instance was done by a lindorm wrapped around a church, so perhaps it couldn't/wouldn't go out to hunt?] -Do not like tobacco -Strong enough to strike a stone with its tail and leave a furrow -Burrow underneath the ground, sometimes under churches [semi-fossorial, like most snakes] -Not immune to heavy ordnance or a mad, three-year old bull -Blood is poisonous and liable to kill their slayer if it's spilled heavily

Folktales of Norway by Reidar Thoralf Christiansen (1964)

-One was exorcised by flame, thirty ells long (112.5 ft) -Lived alongside numerous other large, ugly snakes underneath the parishes in Trondheim -Had a black mane -Not immune to fire, however, as it perished after devouring the Lapp that had lured it into the ring of flames

[kadaverzart]

hate(it crashed)

[julialundgren]

Ok maybe I skipped some steps including colouring in my last post / lil dragon tutorial, but my drawing process is quite straight forward so here’s more process stuff. Sketch, drawing shadows/highlights & some ddetail in black & white, testing with different colour variations and ultimately ending up with 2 versions because I’m indecisive, adding more details & stuff in the surroundings.

[mushie-draws]

(Beginning my return to this blog with my favourite uni work from the past 2 years)

Finished art from a first year concept major paper, where I designed a creature based on mythology from my background, and was given an additional "visiting" creature designed by another classmate.

My creature is the witte wieven, or "white/wise woman", from Dutch folklore, the visiting creature is a lindworm. I'm still really fond of how this assignment turned out :>

(October 2021)

[hoardofadicedragon]

Lindorm by Lindorm Dice

When they posted their part 2 to their Norse mythology dice Kickstarter, I couldn't resist these Lindorm dice. This color palette is very unique and utterly gorgeous 😍

[jasminetwil]

Hallow-Ink day 13- Lindworm

This fellow look rather pleased. Hmmm, I wonder what he wants? Comment your theories below. 💖🐉🐍

While lindworms are typically depicted as wingless dragon-headed serpents with two clawed arms, in Scandinavian countries such as Sweden, Norway and Denmark, lindworms often have wings, much like the wyvern in British heraldry.