Talk:Wurm/@comment-7811107-20160303003955/@comment-199.116.194.196-20160305005756

The word is primarily germanic in origin, wurm or wyrm are common words for dragons in those parts. Though the idea of unintelligent snake like dragons can be seen all throughout Europe and through parts of the middle east. Most of the early dragon myths were basically about giant armored snakes. Overtime the myths evolved into the winged fire breathing beasts we know today, this was probably due to an escelation in story telling. The hero of each legend had to be bigger and badder than the last so the things they had to fight also had to bigger and badder.