Below the thunders of the upper deep, far, far beneath in the abysmal sea,

His ancient dreamless uninvated sleep, the Kraken sleepeth, faintest sunlights flee.

About his shadowy sides above him swell,

huge sponges of millennial growth and height,

and far away into the sickly light

from many a wondrous grot and secret cell.

Unnumbered an enormous polypie, winnow with giant arms the slumbering green,

there hath he lain for ages and will lie, batting upon huge sea worms in his sleep.

Until the latter fire shall heat the deep, then once by man and angels to be seen,

and roaring he shall rise, and on the surface, die.

The Cracken by Alfred Lord Tennyson.

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This week we are discussing the largest and the most terrifying legend of the seas, the Krakken.

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