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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]
Age of Mythology (2002) [36] Archon II: Adept (1984) : Features a Kraken as one of the elementals. [37] Final Fantasy (1987) [38] Forge of Empires added Kraken to the Oceanic Future age in 2017 [39] God of War II (2007) Set in the world Greek mythology, the Kraken is the final barrier between the player character Kratos and the temple of the ...
Greg Weisman, who wrote the episode, planned to use the story for the Gargoyles comic book series. [6] He said if he is unable to use the Atlantis characters, then he will use analogs for the story. [7] Weisman has mentioned that while the episode itself is canon in the Gargoyles universe, the entire series Team Atlantis is not.
The Wawel Dragon (Polish: Smok Wawelski), also known as the Dragon of Wawel Hill, is a famous dragon in Polish legend.. According to the earliest account (13th century), a dragon (Greek: holophagos, "one who swallows whole") plagued the capital city of Kraków established by legendary King Krak (or Krakus, Gracchus, etc.).
Many-headed and tentacled monsters appear as the Gorgon and the Medusa of Greek mythology, and the kraken of Nordic legend. The taxonomist Carl Linnaeus named the Venus shell as Venus dione, for the goddess of love and her mother, and named its parts using overtly sexual descriptors.
During this time, he comes to command the Kraken, a feared mythological sea monster. In the book series about Jack Sparrow's earlier adventures, Davy Jones shows interest in the Sword of Cortes, also sought by Jack. He is a minor character, but appears in the seventh book as Jack and his crew encounter the Flying Dutchman.
Daniel Whitehall is a British intelligence agent also known as the Kraken. [143] An elite assassin and member of the terrorist organization Hydra, he also used the name and debuted in Secret Warriors #2 (March 2009). Writer/artist Jonathan Hickman stated in an interview with Comic Book Resources that "Kraken" is a new character. The other Hydra ...
He is preoccupied by Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring, an ex-girlfriend called Luise von Himmelbett, and characters from mythology including The Kraken. His own name is a reference to Hermes and Orpheus. Lacking inspiration to write his third novel, he responds to a leaflet put through his letterbox advertising a treatment for blocked artists.