The headlines out of Iceland this week are largely focused on the impending eruption of the island's Barbardunga volcano, so you'd be forgiven if you missed the far more exciting announcement made by a local government commission in Lagarfljot.
The commission, convened in 2012, announced earlier this week that a video captured by local farmer Hjortur E. Kjerulf is authentic, thus largely confirming the existence of Lagarfljotsormurinn, a legendary Icelandic sea monster. In the video, seen below, a large serpentine object moves across the surface of the water, before leaping clear of the lake's surface to snag a cow from the shore and swallow it whole. That last part is alleged - some of the video is a bit grainy.
According to local legend, Lagarfljotsormurinn is generally described as 90 meters long, with numerous humps. The creature is alleged to have been seen both in the water and coiled up on land.
Finnish researcher Miisa McKeown was extremely skeptical of the commission's initial findings until the existence of a second video (seen below) offered what appears to be incontrovertible evidence of the sea monster's existence.
eye status: completely swollen shut. diagnosis now poison ivy vs. insect bite. it's a motherfucker.
ReplyDeleteI saw something about this on The discovery channel. The animal in the grainy video is a Greenland shark, unless you're a cryptozoologist in which case it's whatever you want it to be.
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ReplyDeleteHey, Rob, I hope your eye heals quickly and completely.
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I hope you wear a bad assed eye patch from now on. And talk like a pirate.
pics please rob
ReplyDeletei need you to post a picture of the eye, pus included, before i believe you. i am withholding sympathy until then.
ReplyDeletehere you go, danimal:
ReplyDeletehttp://ow.ly/i/6UPV9
lookin' good
ReplyDeleteHey Nowwww!!!!
ReplyDeleteCasual Wednesday at Reuters today? Or are you staying at home so as not to scare people?
staying at home because i can't drive with one eye. convenient, in that it lets me hang out in my pajamas for most of the day.
ReplyDeleteIt's similar to the jaguar shark that ate Esteban.
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ReplyDeleteYou winkin' at me, boy?
Damn that blows, Rob.
ReplyDeleteJust received a work email with a hashtag in it. For some reason this irritates me.
But seriously, I hope it gets better soon.
ReplyDeleteI love the pirate eye patch idea!!!
ReplyDeleteA work email with a hashtag should be a firing offense unless you work at twitter.
ReplyDeleteI still think Rob got in a bar fight.
You wear pajamas? Of course you do.
ReplyDeletenot to sleep, mark. just to lounge about in the mornings.
ReplyDeleteThat's fairly ridiculous Rob. Do you have poison ivy anywhere else or just your eye? And if just your eye, how the hell does that happen? Wearing gloves and scratch your eye?
ReplyDeleteRob has kids. He can't just walk around naked all day.
ReplyDeleteI think we have another spousal abuse victim here. Rob....we are here for you. Tell the truth. Don't be ashamed. It's not your fault.
ReplyDeleteSorry...that's probably in poor taste.
little bit on my right arm, left shin, and waistband area, mayhugh. it's really fucking weird, man.
ReplyDeleteRight arm and the, ahem, "waistband area," I think we get what that's about. The other places...
ReplyDeleteI have a theory: Rob is a suburbanite, he's got kids. He probably found a hula hoop in his yard. When no one was looking, he picked it up and tried it out, tainting his ankle and "waistband" area in the process. Makes perfect sense.
ReplyDeleteThe Hula Hoop was obviously covered in Poison Ivy
ReplyDeleteFYI, Friday is National Talk Like A Pirate Day. Seriously:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.talklikeapirate.com/piratehome.html
Make this happen rob.
i shall talk like andrew mccutcheon.
ReplyDeleteJameis Winston is a terrific QB and quite often a spoiled idiot in everyday life.
ReplyDeleteAndrew McCutcheon is from Ft. Meade, FL so it shouldn't be hard to pull that off.
ReplyDeleteHow does one 'taint' their ankle?
ReplyDeleteI recall an incidence of poison ivy back at school!
ReplyDeleteyikes! why isn't government working harder to eradicate that stuff? is there a vaccine yet?
ReplyDeletea vaccine might be ready in two years, it's in stage one clinical trials. no help there.
ReplyDeleteI remember the poison ivy outbreak in college as well. Afflicted just two individuals, as I remember.
ReplyDeleteAnywho...
Poison ivy, poison ivy
Late at night while you're sleepin'
Poison ivy comes a'creepin' Around
You're gonna need an ocean
of calamine lotion
You'll be scratchin' like a hound
The minute you start to mess around
Poison ivy, poison ivy...
"Poison Ivy," The Coasters, 1959
donna, i'm not touching that comment.
ReplyDeleteand clarence, you're telling me it can creep? is there anywhere we're safe from that menace?
That eye looks like it needs some steroids. And oatmeal baths.
ReplyDeletewe got the steroids working. there's been some improvement over the day. i'm also benching like 250.
ReplyDelete"Muscle Squirrel"
ReplyDelete250 pieces?
ReplyDeleteI've got free Mets tix tonight. Do I bother going?
ReplyDeleteYes!!!!
ReplyDeleteNo.
speaking of free tix, I got to see Lorde at the United Palace Theater on Monday...pretty good show but I'm glad the tix were free.
ReplyDeleteBut the United Palace Theater is a fucking awesome venue; very ornate with lots of intricate gilded surfaces. I imagine it was even more impressive in the 1930's & 1940's. It's way up on 175th & Broadway though.
Operation Ivy?
ReplyDeletemy most successful coaching tactic this year was when i taught my players how to identify poison ivy, which is rampant behind the track and also under the south river bench.
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