Flogdrake

Flogdrake (Old Swedish: floghdraki, Finnish: louhikäärme), also elddrake or eldsdrake (lit. 'fire dragon, fiery dragon'), dialectally also godsdrake (Dalecarlian: gussdratji, lit. 'goods dragon'), is a type of dragon in Swedish folklore, and to a lesser extent Finnish and Estonian folklore (see kratt), by analogy a variation of the Pan-European firedrake, especially of Swedish folklore, to a lesser extent Finnish and Estonian folklore (see kratt), and only by analogy. By analogy, it is related to the of European myth; it is a wingless worm-dragon that flies across the sky while glowing, looking like a streak of fire or light akin to a shooting star, but unlike Slavic myth, it lives in mountain tunnels that it bores.

Related myths also exist in Northern Germany, for example the Schrat.

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