Facts about The Kraken

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   Jules Verne featured a giant squid attack in his 1870 novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, drawing on Kraken-like mythology for the creature.

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   Linnaeus included the Kraken as a cephalopod in the first edition of his Systema Naturae before removing it from later editions.

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   In Alfred Lord Tennyson's 1830 poem 'The Kraken', the creature is depicted sleeping in the deep ocean until a fiery apocalypse brings it to the surface.

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   Erik Pontoppidan, an 18th-century Norwegian bishop, gave one of the most detailed early written descriptions of the Kraken in his 1752 work Natural History of Norway.

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   Norwegian and Icelandic sailors described the Kraken as a colossal sea monster resembling a giant squid or crab capable of dragging ships underwater.

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