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Kraken Facts:
- For more than 2000 years, sailors have told stories of a giant sea monster that attacked boats. In the 1700s and 1800s, sailors from Norway and Greenland named these monsters kraken.
- Kraken have inspired poets and writers. In 1830, Alfred Tennyson wrote The Kraken, a poem about a massive creature that slept "far far beneath in the abysmal sea."
- In 1870, Jules Vernes described an attack by a giant sea monster in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. The characters debate whether it is a giant whale or a kraken.
- For a good fantasy read, check out China Mieville's KRAKEN
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I've been meaning to read the China Mieville's novel. Cool Kraken!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Teresa. I'm still figuring out the look of my kraken for my story. This is one of the contenders.
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