Iello, Kraken Attack, Board Game, Ages 7+, 1 to 4 Players, 25 mins Minutes Playing Time

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Cf. kraken aka "the crab-fish" ( Swedish: Krabbfisken) described by Swedish magnate Jacob Wallenberg [ sv] in Min son på galejan ("My son on the galley", 1781): The ophiurid starfish seems further fortified when he notes that "starfish" called "Medusa's heads" ( caput medusæ; pl. capita medusæ) are considered to be "the young of the great sea-krake" by local lore. Pontoppidan ventured the 'young krakens' may rather be the eggs ( ova) of the starfish. [112] Pontopiddan was satisfied that "Medusa's heads" was the same as the foregoing starfish ( Stella arborensis of old), [113] but "Medusa's heads" were something found ashore aplenty across Norway according to von Bergen, who thought it absurd these could be young "Kraken" since that would mean the seas would be full of (the adults). [114] [115] The "Medusa's heads" appear to be a Gorgonocephalid, with Gorgonocephalus spp. being tentatively suggested. [116] [s]

Pontopoppidan's "Soe-draulen, Soe-trolden, Sea-mischief" has been frequently requoted, [22] [23] but these terms can be deferred to Egede's explanation (discussed further, below) that employs søe-trold as a general classification, under which krake and the søe-drau fall. [24] The word drau as a variant of draug was recognized by Pontoppidan as meaning ' spøgelse ghost, spectre', [25] and the latter form draug is defined more specifically as a being associated with sea or water in modern Norwegian dictionaries. [26] The " Sea-mischief" appears in the English translation [27] but is absent in the original. [28] The description of the hafgufa in the King's Mirror suggests a garbled eyewitness account of what was actually a whale, at least to Grönlands historiske Mindesmaerker. [71] Halldór Hermannsson [ sv] also reads the work as describing the hafgufa as a type of whale. [43] The market didn’t necessarily see this as a one-off action on the part of the agency, however. Ether ( ETH) plummeted around 6.5% on the day of the settlement announcement, its largest one-day decline since mid-December. As widely reported, Ethereum moved last year from a proof-of-work to a proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus mechanism. Dubbed “the Merge,” this technical makeover was hailed by many for radically reducing the network’s prodigious energy usage and carbon footprint. But some, at least, feared Ethereum was now in the sights of U.S. regulators because of its new staking protocols.

Without a fishing explosive, players must disturb the four smaller whirlpools before they can successfully release the Kraken. Olaus gives description of a whale with two elongated teeth ("like a boar's or elephant's tusk") to protect its huge eyes, which "sprouts horns", and although these are as hard as horn, they can be made supple also. [175] [38] But the tusked form was named "swine-whale" ( German: Schweinwal), and the horned form "bearded whale" ( German: Bart-wal) by Swiss naturalist Gesner, who observed it possessed a "starry beard" around the upper and lower jaws. [176] [36] At least one writer has suggested this might represent the kraken of Norwegian lore. [37]

a b c "Linné (Carl von)". Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Smithsonian Institution. 1874. pp.31–32.Bergen, Karl August von (1761), "Observatio XXVIII: Microcosmo, bellua marina omnium", Nova acta physico-medica Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae naturae curiosorum exhibentia ephemerides, impensis Wolfgangi Schwarzkopfii, vol.2, pp.143–150 The krake (English: kraken) was described by Hans Egede in his Det gamle Grønlands nye perlustration (1729; Ger. t. 1730; tr. Description of Greenland, 1745), [50] drawing from the fables of his native region, the Nordlandene len [ no] of Norway, then under Danish rule. [52] [53] a b Gibson, John (1887). "Chapter VI: The Legendary Kraken". Monsters of the Sea, Legendary and Authentic. London: T. Nelson. pp.79–86 (plate, p. 83). Archived from the original on 19 January 2022 . Retrieved 19 January 2022– via Biodiversity.

Nyrop, Kristoffer [in Danish] (1887), "Navnets mag: en folkepsykologisk studie", Opuscula Philologica: Mindre Afhandlinger, Copenhagen: Filologisk-historiske Samfund: 182 an enormous sea monster that lives off the grief and misery of sailors as it destroys thier ship and fun.Stowell, Barbara A. (2009). "Under the Sea: The Kraken in Culture". cgdclass.com. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015 . Retrieved 8 April 2019. The word "Kraken" was first heard in 12th-century Norwegian legends, referring to a creature the size of an island, and usually depicted as a giant squid. In these legends the Kraken's many arms or tentacles could reach to the top of a ship's mainmast and could without any great effort capsize a full-rig vessel. So great was the creature's fame that it was even immortalized in British poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson's " The Kraken," scribed in 1830. In the 20th century, stamp collectors could find the Kraken's image on postages from such diverse countries as Canada and even the Commonwealth of Dominica, one of the Dead Man's Chest host countries. [10] Kraken skulls and skeletons can be found throughout the Sea of Thieves, but more frequently in The Wilds. The two are changing forms of just one beast, which has both tusks and protrusible horns to protect its large eyes, according to Olaus's book. [38]