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sound as if from a sick child" followed by a "loud bang.. as if by a violent thunderclap", and out of one cauldron leaped out a strange creature with a black serpent-like body and a cat-like head, which disappeared into the lake (the trolls and the cauldrons too vanished as well, in a wisp of white smoke, leaving a gaping abyss). The monster dwelling in the lake became a menace to surrounding areas, and grew so big as to encircle the entire island of Frösön and be able to bite its own tail. Then came along Ketil Jamte who bound the beast by carving spells into a stone which was erected on the east shore of Frösön. Parts of the beast were still visible above the water-line, but it is warned that it could be liberated some day when someone deciphers the runestone.
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The Frösö stone has a large serpent depicted on it, but there is no reference to it nor to Kettil Runske in the text itself, which instead tells about Austmaðr, Guðfastr's son's christening of Jämtland, and the construction of the Frösö Bridge, though the stone has indeed been broken in two pieces.
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and therefore shall this stone be raised. Since no one peacefully could cross , the ferryman and his wife states, along with many others, that in the last turbulent time this stone was torn down and broken in two. As long as this stone lay on the ground many strange things occurred in the water,
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Swedish
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294:) inhabiting Storsjön, contained in a manuscript by Morten Pedersen Herdal dated to 1635. According to commentators this text ascribed to rune-master
1792:- query specifying location ("Frösö"), etc. returns dataset of alleged sightings, the website also holds numerous digicopies of newspaper articles.
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917:(in Swedish). Östersund Tourist- & Conference Office
1750:(in Swedish), Nordic Academic Press, pp. 201–212,
893:. Bell, David (tr.). Östersund: Jämtlands läns museum.
1702:(in Swedish). Östersund: Jämtlandspostens boktryckeri.
1400:"(Ur arkivet) SvD 1894: "Storsjöodjuret åter framme!""
849:"Sweden's Loch Ness monster possibly caught on camera"
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1588:. Storsjoodjuret.com. Archived from
1223:. Storsjoodjuret.com. Archived from
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261:Hydogiganta Monstruidae Jemtlandicum
1790:Storsjöodjurets observationsdatabas
1636:Berggren, Niels-Olof (2005-11-09),
694:Björkman, Carl Gustaf (1889), ed.,
472:The only city located by Storsjön,
235:Storsjöodjuret is sometimes called
14:
1057:Samlinger til den Danske Historie
1021:"Sjöormar i nordisk tro och dikt"
859:on 11 September 2008 – via
824:"Norwegian Lake and Sea Monsters"
568:Samlinger til den Danske Historie
516:as "benämning på stora sjöormen".
2242:Scandinavian legendary creatures
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1784:Storsie – 1857 report discovered
1728:Rannsakningar efter antikviteter
1510:Landes, David (28 August 2008).
1124:Rannsakningar efter antikviteter
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1077:Danicorum monumentorum libri sex
855:. 29 August 2008. Archived from
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312:Rannsakningar efter antikviteter
209:meaning ‘great-lake’, being the
1772:Official page of Storsjöodjuret
1565:"Storsjöodjuret fångat på film"
1532:"Storsjöodjuret fångat på film"
1179:Introduction to Nordic Cultures
915:"Visste ni detta om Östersund?"
1096:"Litteraturkrönika (review of
492:) spearheading the criticism.
224:Sometimes it is simply called
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1540:(in Swedish). 27 August 2008.
1181:, UCL Press, pp. 18–20,
944:Jämten: föreningen Jämtslöjds
822:Skjelsvik, Elizabeth (1960).
799:Dewey, Donald (Summer 2004).
197:word for ‘monster’ or ‘large
16:Swedish folklore lake monster
1742:; Hållans, Ann-Mari (eds.),
1409:(in Swedish). 21 April 2019.
713:Ordbok öfver svenska språket
267:(‘The Great Lake Serpent’).
181:Storsjöodjuret and Östersund
1774:In Swedish, English, German
1551:Meurger & Gagnon (1988)
1495:Meurger & Gagnon (1988)
1447:Meurger & Gagnon (1988)
1337:. Routledge. p. 142?.
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711:Sunden, D. A. (1892), ed.,
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228:(‘The great-lake animal’).
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1716:Ståhle, Carl Ivar, redact.
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1681:, London: Fortean Tomes,
1366:"The Lindorms of Småland"
1052:Sandvig, Bertel Christian
769:Eason, Cassandra (2008).
683:STOR, (I 1 a) -SJÖ-ODJUR.
534:Svenska akademiens ordbok
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732:Thelander, Mats (1996),
679:Svenska akademien ordbok
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982:Sägner om Kettil Runske
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