An old Norse riddle, quite an easy one when you think of it.
A dragon with one wing and 24 legs, sheds its scales on the sand.
What is it?
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Sign up to join this communityAn old Norse riddle, quite an easy one when you think of it.
A dragon with one wing and 24 legs, sheds its scales on the sand.
What is it?
Is it
A ship
A dragon with one wing and 24 legs, sheds its scales on the sand.
The ship could be seen as a dragon with the sail as wing. The viking boats (it's a Norse riddle) had a sculpture on the bow which might be a dragon. It has 24 rowers, so the oars could be seen as legs.
As for the scales, I guess when the vikings disembark on the sand, they take with them their shields which on the boat were used to protect the sides of the ship so they look like dragon scales.