Lindworm is a great winged serpent, without a tail, that may have two legs or none at all. European Folklore describes Lindworm in many different ways: some legends consider it to be a pestilent animal, which stole and fed on cattle.

Other stories venerate it, because Lindworm was considered a good luck amulet. One thing is certain, Lindworm was a fabulous mythical animal represented in the Nordic and Germanic heraldry. It is associated with wyvern, which are legendary reptiles with wings, flaking skin and ardent breathing. 

Lindworm - called lindorm in Scandinavia and Lindwurm in Germany - is an enormous viper with similar aspect to a dragon, often mentioned through European mythology and the folklore.

Marco Polo expressed on his Newspaper that - at the province of Carajan, located in the Southeaster Asia - he met this type of immense and frightful serpent-dragons.

He said that these dragons had two front legs near their heads and had lion/hawk like feet. They also possessed a mouth, big enough, that they could swallow a man at the first bite.

During the nineteenth century, the Swedish folklorist Gunnar Olof Hyltén-Cavallius reunited an anthology that compiled a great amount of stories about these legendary creatures from Sweden.