#WyrdWednesday 🐉 High in mountains & shadowy caves, ancient #wyrms slithered: scaled, venomous & wingless.
From Germanic lore, the wyrm was a great serpent or dragon, haunting tales from Beowulf to Tolkien’s Smaug.
Before dragons breathed fire, there were wyrms. 🐲

🎨by illustrator John Bauer, 1911.