Kraken is a legendary sea monster of gigantic size and cephalopod-like appearance. According to the Norse sagas, the kraken dwells off the coasts of Norway and Greenland and terrorizes nearby sailors. Kraken is also an old Norwegian word for octopus and an old euphemism in Swedish for whales.
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Kraken is a legendary sea monster of gigantic size and cephalopod-like appearance in Scandinavian folklore. According to the Norse sagas, the kraken dwells off the coasts of Norway and Greenland and terrorizes nearby sailors. Kraken is also an old Norwegian word for octopus and an old euphemism in Swedish for whales, used when the original word became taboo as it was believed it could summon the creatures. Authors over the years have postulated that the legend may have originated from sightings of giant squids that may grow to 13–15 meters in length. The sheer size and fearsome appearance attributed to the k Kraken have made it a common ocean-dwelling monster in various fictional works. In the late-13th-century version of the Old Icelandic saga Örvar-Oddr is an inserted episode of a journey bound for Helluland which takes the protagonists through the Greenland Sea. Here they spot two massive sea-monsters called Hafgufa and Lyngbakr. The hafgufa is believed to be a reference to the Kraken, while the LyngBakr is thought to be the name of a mythical sea monster from the same era and time.
The kra Ken has been the focus of many sailors passing the North Atlantic and especially sailors from the Nordic countries. In modern German, Krake means octopus, but can also refer to the legendary kRAken. In both Norwegian and Swedish Kraken is the definite form of krake, a word designating an unhealthy animal or something twisted. In modern Swedish, the word kraki is used to refer to a creature that is unhealthy or twisted, such as a snake or a scorpion, and is also used to describe a monster that can be summoned by the user. In Swedish, Kraken is used as a word for a whale, and in Norwegian it is used for a monster of the same name, which is said to live in the same area of the sea as the Kraken. It is believed that there are only two in existence, stemming from the observation that the beasts have always been sighted in the the same parts of the Greenland sea.
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