KRAKEN
Kraken Concept
by bryan sola
Aka : Krabben, Sciu-Crak, Hafgufe
Description
Probably no legendary creature was as horrifying as the Kraken, a giant sea monster. According to stories this huge, many armed, creature looked like an island when motionless and could reach as high as the top of a sailing ship’s main mast with its arms deployed.
When the Kraken attacked a ship, it wrapped its arms around the hull and capsize it. The crew would drown or be eaten by the monster. Kraken were mostly noticed in the seas of Scandinavia. Fishermen said that huge amounts of fishs gravitate around Kraken and the boat that succeeds to fish around the monster without awaking it will take more than possible to carry aboard.
Origin
The Kraken of legend is probably what we know today as the giant squid or cephalopod. They are large enough to wrestle with a sperm whale.
Stories
Early stories about Kraken, from Norway in the twelfth century, refer to a creature the size of an island. Even in 1752, when the Bishop of Bergen, Erik Ludvigsen Pontoppidan, wrote his Natural History of Norway he described the Kraken as a “floating island” one and a half miles across. He also noted: “It seems these are the creatures’s arms, and, it is said, if they were to lay hold of the largest man-of-war, they would pull it down to the bottom.”
Later Kraken stories bring the creature down to a smaller, but still monstrous size and assimilated it as a giant octopus.
On at least three occasions in the thirties they attacked a ship. While the squids got the worst of these encounters when they slid into the ship’s propellers, the fact that they attacked at all shows that it is possible for these creatures to mistake a vessel for a whale.
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THE KRAKEN BY ALFRED TENNYSON
In 1830 Alfred Tennyson published the irregular sonnet The Kraken,
which described a massive creature that dwelled at the bottom of the sea:
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Below the thunders of the upper deep;
Far far beneath in the abysmal sea,
His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep
The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee
About his shadowy sides; above him swell
Huge sponges of millennial growth and height;
And far away into the sickly light,
From many a wondrous grot and secret cell
Unnumber’d and enormous polypi
Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green.
There hath he lain for ages, and will lie
Battening upon huge seaworms in his sleep,
Until the latter fire shall heat the deep;
Then once by man and angels to be seen,
In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die..
THE LEVIATHAN ( KRAKEN )
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KRAKEN ATTACK … PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN
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IT CAME FROM BENEATH THE SEA … THE KRAKEN 1955
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INFORMATION :
IT CAME FROM BENEATH THE SEA 1955
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