Viking Folklore: Margygr the Norse mermaid.
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In Norse mythology, the margygr is a large mermaid like creature that's believed to live off the coast of Greenland.
Unlike later mermaid legends where the mermaid is beautiful, this creature is described as either unnerving and hideous or strikingly beautiful both and forms always leaves it's witness's in aw/shock.
Like most mermaid sightings the Margygr is a human fish hybrid, most of the time she has the top half of a beautiful large breasted long haired woman with webbed hands with a fish like appearance from the waist down, though she is much larger then a normal mermaid.
In other accounts she's described as a giant terrifying and grotesque creature.
Margygr translates to "Sea Giantess" or "Sea spirit".
The Vikings considered these being to be more of a force of nature or powerful spirit then an actual creature, some would even pray to it for a safe voyage before they set sail.
Sightings are rare,but when it is spotted it's always before a powerful storm and can be either beneficial and helpful to sailors or harmful and violent. .
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