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The kraken is a supposed sea monster of vast size, said to have been seen off the coast of Norway and Iceland. An early description was by Erik Pontopiddan, bishop of Bergen, in his Natural History of Norway ( 1755) but the name can be traced to the end of the sixteenth century and the concept to the fourteenth century. The legend was disseminated in English by Alfred, Lord Tennyson's popular poem "The Kraken," (essentially an irregular sonnet), published in 1830. Tennyson's description apparently influenced Jules Verne's imagined lair of the giant squid in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, 1870.

In the 1981 film Clash of the Titans, "kraken" is given as the name of the creature that is sent to kill Andromeda. In fact this monster, slain by Perseus, was typically referred to as a " ketos" by the ancient GreeksSee The Greeks for the financial term for the set of measures derived from the Black-Scholes option pricing formula, named for the use of the Greek alphabet to denote parameters. Greeks in Ancient History In Latin literature, Graeci (or Greeks in English), a word that is best translated by the EnglishThe English language is a West Germanic language, originating from England. It is the third most common "first" language (native speakers), with around 402 million people in 2002. English has lingua franca status in many parts of the world, due to the mil phrase " sea monster". The ketos has no historic connection with the kraken.

The kraken of legendA legend (Latin, legenda "things to be read") is a narrative of human actions that are perceived both by teller and listeners to take place within human history and to possess certain qualities that give the tale verisimilitude. Legend, for its active and was probably based on sailorA sailor is a member of the crew of a ship or boat. The term may comprise anyone from an admiral in the navy to a person who goes out yachting at weekends as a hobby. A sailor is also specifically an enlisted member of a naval force. The term can be useds' observations of the giant squidArchiteuthis dux Architeuthis hartingii Architeuthis japonica Architeuthis kirkii Architeuthis martensi Architeuthis physeteris Architeuthis sanctipauli Architeuthis stockii Giant squid are marine mollusks of the class Cephalopoda, represented by the eigh.

See also cryptozoologyCryptozoology is the study of rumored or mythological animals that are presumed to exist, but for which conclusive proof does not yet exist; or are generally considered extinct, but occasionally reported. Those who study or search for such animals are cal, orcThis article is about the mythical demon, for King Canute's steward of England see Orc (steward). Orc (sometimes spelt Ork is a Latin word for a demon or a creature of the underworld. It was revived by J. Tolkien in his fictional stories of Middle-earth a