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Erik Ludvigsen Pontoppidan (24 August 1698 – 20 December 1764) was a Danish author, a Lutheran bishop of the Church of Norway, a historian, and an antiquarian. His Catechism of the Church of Denmark heavily influenced Danish and Norwegian religious thought and practice for roughly the next 200 years after its 1737 publication.
Pontoppidan then declared the kraken to be a type of polypus (=octopus) [109] or "starfish", particularly the kind Gessner called Stella Arborescens, later identifiable as one of the northerly ophiurids [110] or possibly more specifically as one of the Gorgonocephalids or even the genus Gorgonocephalus (though no longer regarded as family/genus ...
Pontoppidan identified the Kraken as a giant polypus (squid/octopus) already in the 18th century and the 16th c. Carta marina shows a fish with tentacles and spikes from the face, which could easily be based on a flawed description of a squid. The modern western popularity of the Kraken as a giant squid is irrelevant based on earlier sources.
A Fortunate Man (Danish: Lykke-Per) is a 2018 Danish drama film directed by Bille August. [1] In August 2018, it was one of three films shortlisted to be the Danish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards. [2]
The Kraken introduced Buoy on October 1, 2022, prior to a preseason game at Climate Pledge Arena against the Vancouver Canucks. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The Kraken had intended to introduce Buoy around Christmas during the 2021–22 season , but due to game postponements related to the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant , the team decided to wait ...
The first player to have served as captain of the Kraken is Mark Giordano, his captaincy starting in October 2021 and ending five months later. [5] [6] On October 8, 2024, prior the Kraken's first game of the 2024–25 season, Jordan Eberle was named the team's new captain. [7] Adam Larsson has the most games played out of any Kraken, with 245. [8]
The earliest known photograph of an intact giant squid, showing the arms, tentacles and buccal region of the head (including beak) of a specimen from Logy Bay, Newfoundland (#30 on this list), draped over Reverend Moses Harvey's sponge bath, November or December 1873.
The Kraken is an aquatic monster that has appeared in many comics publications. [2] A Kraken was featured in the story "The Kraken" in issue #49 of Adventures into the Unknown by ACG in 1953. [3] The web comic "Angry Faerie" (from July 13, 2012), featured a bodybuilder type character called the Kraken. [4]