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

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

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the kraken is not real!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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