Keep your lips pressed together.

Keep its name out of your mind.

There’s evil magic in the word.

The evil magic of its wicked soul.

Taumafiskur,

A mysterious creature, taumafiskur is a new kind of monster.

While many of other illhveli’s names appear in the Konungs skuggsjá—Old Norse for King's Mirror—a Norwegian educational text published around 1250, the Taumafiskur makes its first appearance in a later record by Jón Guðmundsson, who in the 17th Century published a list of marine species that included whale species reported as legendary.

The Taumafiskur, whose name derives from the light colored markings extending from its eyes to its mouth and outwards, contrasting sharply against its coal-black body...

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