Lux Esoterica (Nifiluz)

The lindworm — the lindorm of the Scandinavian tongues — is the wingless serpent-dragon of northern Europe: a vast serpent, sometimes with two small forelegs, sometimes none, a limbless or near-limbless dragon of the old Germanic and Norse world, coiled around treasure-hoards and gnawing at the roots of things. But this chronicle, which has met a great many coiled and hoarding dragons, will follow the lindworm into the one tale that makes it unforgettable — the Danish and Scandinavian wonder-tale of Prince Lindworm , "King Lindworm," which is one of the deepest stories of transformation in all of European folklore, and which turns not on slaying the serpent but on undressing it. The Bride and the Nine Shifts A queen who could bear no child is given, by a wise woman, a means to conceive — two roses, or two onions, one to be eaten for a boy and one for a girl, and warned: eat only one. But the queen, greedy for children, eats both — and eats the wrong one first, or eats...