The European/Asian slow worm (Anguis) is what sort of animal?
Anguis Anguis Slowworms (also called blindworms) are a small genus (Anguis) of snakelike legless lizards in the family Anguidae. The genus has two living species, the common slowworm and the Peloponnese slowworm and up to three fossil species. Slowworms are typically grey-brown, with the females having a coppery sheen and two lateral black , and the males displaying electric blue spots, particularly in the breeding season. They give birth to live young; the young are about long at birth and generally have golden stripes. Slowworms are slow-moving and can be easily caught, which has given rise to the folk etymology that
Lagarfljót Worm a "wonderful thing" (), and not specifically as a worm. The "thing" seen in Lagarfljót looked like either islands or humps out of water, distanced hundreds of fathoms apart, but no one saw that it had either a head or tail. The creatures were documented in annals with some frequency in subsequent times as well. The map of Iceland attributed to Bishop Guðbrandur Þorláksson, engraved in 1585 by cartographer Abraham Ortelius is another attestation. The map bears inscription next to Lagarfljót stating that "In this lake appears a large serpent ("In hoc lacu est anguis insolitæ magnitudinis")" which are a