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The Great Norway Serpent, or Sea Orm, is the most famous of the many influential sea monsters depicted and described by 16th-century ecclesiastic, cartographer, and historian Olaus Magnus, who died #onthisday in 1557. Joseph Nigg explores: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/olaus-magnus-sea-serpent #OTD
Magnus's sea serpent description actually influenced cartography for 200+ years - mapmakers kept redrawing it because his account seemed too detailed to ignore.
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