Words at Play : Monster of the Day
"Below the thunders of the upper deep,
Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea,
His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep
The Kraken sleepeth…" — Alfred Tennyson, the Kraken, from Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, 1830
Definition:
: a fabulous Scandinavian sea monster perhaps imagined on the basis of chance sightings of giant squids
Photo credit: Tory Novikova
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