 A one-humped "monster" ("") of Lagarfljót was allegedly spotted in 1749–1750.This has been treated as the creature of the same ilk as the humped creature of the annals by Sabine Baring-Gould, and in more modern times, equated with "The Water-Snake of Lagarfljot" by Jacqueline Simpson, an authority on dragon legends in the British Isles.Baring-Gould (1863) had obtained reports about a 46 feet long lake monster (which he referred to as a "skrimsl") allegedly surfacing in Skorradalsvatn and witnessed by at least three farmers.