Editing Lindworm (section)

== In heraldry ==
{{See also|Biscione}}
According to the 19th-century English archaeologist [[Charles Boutell]], a lindworm in heraldry is basically "a dragon without wings".<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Aveling |editor1-first=S. T. |title=Heraldry, Ancient and Modern: Including Boutell's Heraldry |date=1892 |publisher=W. W. Gibbings |location=London |page=139 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CTsaAAAAYAAJ&q=lindworm&pg=PA139}}</ref> A different heraldic definition by German historian [[Maximilian Gritzner]] was "a dragon with four feet" instead of usual two,<ref>{{cite journal |last=Gritzner |first=Adolf Maximilian Ferdinand |author-link=Maximilian Gritzner |date=1878 |title=Heraldische Terminologie |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HbJs52C53IsC |journal=Vierteljahrsschrift für Heraldik, Sphragistik und Genealogie |volume=6 |pages=313–314 |access-date=April 24, 2022}}</ref> so that depictions with - comparatively smaller - wings exist as well.<ref>{{cite book |last=Havas |first=Harald |date=2021 |title=Orte - Eine Sammlung skurriler und unterhaltsamer Fakten |publisher=[[Ueberreuter|Carl Ueberreuther]] |chapter=Linder Wurm |isbn=9783800082100 |lang=de}}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=April 2022}}

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File:DEU Wurmannsquick COA.svg|Wingless limbed lindworm in the arms of the small Bavarian town of [[Wurmannsquick]].
File:AUT Klagenfurt COA.svg|Winged and limbed lindworm in the arms of the city of [[Klagenfurt]].
File:Wappen at sipbachzell.png|Wingless and four-limbed lindworm in the arms of the city of [[Sipbachzell]].
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