Storsjöodjuret
In Swedish folklore, the Storsjöodjuret (, literally "The Great-Lake Monster") is a lake monster said to live in the lake Storsjön in Jämtland in the middle of Sweden.
Key facts
- Mythical creature.name
- Storsjöodjuret
- Mythical creature.image
- Draak Östersund 22jul2006.jpg
- Mythical creature.caption
- Storsjöodjuret and Östersund
- Mythical creature.Sub_Grouping
- Lake monster
- Mythical creature.AKA
- Storsie (English)
- Mythical creature.Country
- Sweden
- Mythical creature.Region
- Storsjön, Jämtland
- Mythical creature.Habitat
- Water
- Mythical creature.First_Attested
- 1635
- Mythical creature.Folklore
- Local legend
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In Swedish folklore, the Storsjöodjuret (, literally "The Great-Lake Monster") is a lake monster said to live in the lake Storsjön in Jämtland in the middle of Sweden.
The lake monster is first attested in a 1635 manuscript, according to which the sea/lake serpent (sjöorm) was bound up magically in the lake's depths by Kettil Runske who carved his spell into the Frösö Runestone (Frösön being an island in this lake). Later folk legends circulating locally in Jämtland claimed the monster was a product of tinkering by two trolls, and that it was a cat-headed creature with a black serpentine body.