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KRAKEN

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 923 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KRAKEN , in See also:

Norwegian folk-See also:lore, a See also:sea-See also:monster, believed to haunt the coasts of See also:Norway. It was described in 1752 by the Norwegian See also:bishop See also:Pontoppidan as having a back about a mile and a See also:half See also:round and a See also:body which showed above the sea like an See also:island, and its arms were See also:long enough to enclose the largest See also:ship. The further assertion that the kraken darkened the wateraround it by an See also:excretion suggests that the myth was based on the See also:appearance of some gigantic cuttle-See also:fish. See J. See also:Gibson, Monsters of the Sea (1887) ; A. S. Packard, " See also:Colossal Cuttle-fishes," See also:American Naturalist (See also:Salem, 18i3), vol. Vii.; A. E. Verrill, " The Colossal Cephalopods of the Western See also:Atlantic," in American Naturalist (Salem, 1875), vol. ix.; and " Gigantic Squids," in Trans. of See also:Connecticut See also:Academy (1879), vol. V.

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