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Besides kraken, the monster went under a variety of names early on, the most common after kraken being horven ("the horv"). [16] Icelandic philologist Finnur Jónsson explained this name in 1920 as an alternative form of harv (lit. ' harrow ') and conjectured that this name was suggested by the inkfish's action of seeming to plow the sea. [15]
The Razer Kraken is a gaming/music headphone range created by Razer Inc. [60] "Kraken" is a modern make of twin-hose regulator for scuba diving. [61] Attorney Sidney Powell referred to releasing supposed evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election as "[releasing] the Kraken," inspiring a wave of memes and criticism. [62]
Kraken is a 2010 fantasy novel by British author China Miéville. It is published in the UK by Macmillan , and in the US by Del Rey Books . Handed in at the same time as The City & the City , it was chosen to be published at a later date to give the former breathing room.
Cthulhu Mythos scholar Robert M. Price claims the irregular sonnet "The Kraken", [5] published in 1830 by Alfred Tennyson, was a major inspiration, since both reference a huge aquatic creature sleeping for an eternity at the bottom of the ocean and destined to emerge from its slumber in an apocalyptic age. [6]
The Kraken" is a sonnet by Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892) that describes the Kraken, a mythical creature. It was published in Tennyson's Poems, Chiefly Lyrical (1830). The critic Christopher Ricks writes that it is among the best poems in the volume, all of which originate in Tennyson’s "despondency". [ 1 ]
The most widely-viewed videos many claim show mysterious drones hovering over New Jersey and New York show clear signs of what they actually are, according to three drone and aeronautics experts ...
#1: Michigan Mega-Monsters (2001) — A pair of kids at a camp find a species of gigantic, mutated crayfish in the nearby lake. #2: Ogres of Ohio (2002) — A brother and a sister find magical artifacts and must keep them safe from ogres who will use them to destroy the world.
Mark McMenamin and Dianna Schulte McMenamin argued that a formation of multiple ichthyosaur fossils (belonging to the genus Shonisaurus) placed together at Berlin–Ichthyosaur State Park may represent evidence of a gigantic cephalopod or Triassic kraken that killed the ichthyosaurs and intentionally arranged their bones in the unusual pattern ...