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SCOTOMTOBER DAY 18: The Stoor Worm
Great enemy of Assipattle, the stoor worms teeth became the farroe islands, and it’s petrified body becoming Iceland.

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2022-10-19

SCOTTOBER DAY 9: Assipattle Assipattle is the laziest and strongest of his siblings. He used his laziness to kill the stoor worm in the least exhausting way. Work smarter, not harder.

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2022-10-09

The Stoorwyrm was a giant sea serpent in Orcadian folklore. In legend it was slain by Assipattle, a young farm boy who, when swallowed by it, plunged burning peat into its liver. It’s death throws turned the sky black and caused great earthquakes.

🖼 Bo Myles

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2021-04-23

Stoorworm: giant venomous sea serpent with a forked tongue. Hatched into life by malignant spirits, his length was beyond telling. Unless supplied with food, he would expel a pestilential reek. He was slain by Assipattle.

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2020-07-21