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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.
Erik Pontoppidan's Det første Forsøg paa Norges naturlige Historie (1752, actually volume 2, 1753) [80] made several claims regarding kraken, including the notion that the creature was sometimes mistaken for a group of small islands with fish swimming in-between, [81] Norwegian fishermen often took the risk of trying to fish over kraken ...
Henrik Pontoppidan (Danish: [ˈhenˀʁek pʰʌnˈtsʰʌpitæn]; 24 July 1857 – 21 August 1943) [1] was a Danish realist writer who shared with Karl Gjellerup the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1917 for "his authentic descriptions of present-day life in Denmark."
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.
Hendrik Pontoppidan (21 March 1814 in Thisted – 22 February 1901) was a Danish merchant, consul and philanthropist. His parents were priest Børge P. Glahn and Mette Magdalene (née Glahn) but when he was three his father died and he was moved to Thisted to live with family there. Through his life Hendrik Pontoppidan worked extensively with ...
Lucky Per (Danish: Lykke-Per) is a novel by Danish Nobel Prize–winning author Henrik Pontoppidan published in eight volumes between 1898 and 1904. It is considered one of the major Danish novels, and in 2004 it was made part of the Danish Culture Canon.
Kraken (legally named Payward, Inc.) is a United States–based cryptocurrency exchange, founded in 2011. It was one of the first bitcoin exchanges to be listed on Bloomberg Terminal [ citation needed ] The company has been the subject of several regulatory investigations since 2018, and has agreed to cumulative fines of over $30 million. [ 4 ]
As late as in 1845, the Encyclopædia metropolitana contained a multi-page review by Erik Pontoppidan (1698–1764) on ship-sinking sea monsters half a mile in size. [45] Many legends might be based on the work Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus of 1539 by Olaus Magnus, which described the kraken and maelstroms of the Norwegian Sea. [46]