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(1877) [MARC] Author: W. Mattieu Williams
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distinction from Sweden, related here at Gottorf,
that he had heard the burgomaster of Malmoe, a
very worthy man, say, that when he was once
standing on the top of a high bill towards the North
Sea, he saw in the water, which was very calm, a
snake, which appeared at that distance to be as
thick as a pipe of wine, and had twenty-five
folds. Those kind of snakes only appear at
certain times, and in calm weather.”

The above only refers to the “Sea Snake,” a
creature of moderate dimensions. Section 2 of
this chapter begins thus:—“I now come to the
third and incontestably the largest sea monster
in the world; it is called the Kraken, Kraxen,
or, as some name it, Krabben, that word being
applied by way of eminence to this creature”.....
“Among all the foreign writers, both
ancient and modern, which I have had
opportunity to consult on this subject, not one of them
seems to know much of this creature, or at least
to have a just idea of it. What they say, however,
of floating islands, as they apprehend them to
be (a thing improbable that they should exist
in the wild tumultuous ocean), shall afterwards
be spoken of, and will be found applicable without
any hyperbole to this creature.”

“Our fishermen unanimously affirm, and

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