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cerealxperimentslain · 3 months ago

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snake identification is easy in sweden. is it zig zag like an adder? no? then it’s a grass snake or as we like to call them, the snok

ID: a wikipedia information box. it says “Snok” in bold letters above an image of a grass snake in profile, sticking its tongue out in the air. The snake is mostly cream coloured with thick black lines between some of the scales. Between the name of the snake and the image of the snake is text that reads: “Status i världen: Livskraftig (lc)”, which translates to “Status in the world: vigorous (least concern)” End ID.

(yes technically there’s also the smooth snake but you’re not gonna stumble upon a smooth snake & they don’t even live in my area)

#snakes #snake in swedish is orm btw and if you’re thinking ‘hey that sounds a lot like worm’ you would be correct they share a root #they both descend from the proto-germanic word wurmiz meaning worm and snake #for our purposes it split into old english wyrm and old norse ormr which eventually turned into modern worm and orm now with #different meanings #but yes this is also where wyrm comes from #like the mythical beast the lindworm also known as the lindwyrm in swedish called the lindorm #honest to god i didn’t get the worm connection first my initial tags were ‘if orm sounds familiar you might be thinking of the lindorm’#and then i saw lindwyrm and went ohhhhh oh yea that makes sense

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