Why this word is great
LINDWORM — [Noun] A wingless serpentine dragon with two arms, often depicted in Germanic folklore. From Proto-Germanic *linþawurmiz, via Old Norse linnormr ("constrictor snake"), cognate with Norwegian lindorm ("serpent") and German Lindwurm ("dragon"). Unlike "wyvern" (a two-legged dragon with wings) or "serpent" (a mere snake, devoid of mythic weight), the lindworm is earthbound, coiled in the damp hollows of old forests, a creature of mud and muscle. It is the rasp of scales against stone in a forgotten cave, the glint of amber eyes in the undergrowth, the slow unspooling of a body too long for the world that contains it—a relic of a time when the wild was still untamed, and monsters were not yet metaphors.