krake
Rare form of Kraken.
Noun
- Rare form of Kraken.
- But the most horrible and hideous monster, that the fables of the Norway fishers have invented, is the krake, sea-horse, or hafgufu, which nobody ever pretends to have seen entire; yet the fishers give out, that when...
- This story is a fit pendant to those of the krake and sea-snake, which likewise rest on the authority of Norwegian fishermen, and which we will mention at another time.[…]For those who are unconvinced by the voluminous...
- Magnus called it “kraken,” the name it bears in Norwegian literature (“krake” means “uprooted tree”). Like earlier writers, Magnus represents the krake (or simply kraken, the “n” meaning “the”) as some kind of colossal...
Origin
Borrowed from Norwegian krake.