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kraken

Gigantic sea monster, which, according to legend, lurks off the shores of Norway. It was first described in 1752 by the Norwegian bishop Pontoppidan.
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Later in the seventeenth century, the Furies are among the cast in plays such as James Shirley's The Traytor (1635) and Thomas Nabbes's Microcosmus (1637).
"Goodlie anticke apparrell"?: Sophocles' Ajax at early modern Oxford ... by Knight, Sarah / Shakespeare Studies
A preliminary visit to the study site found the organism in question to be the nonindigenous ascidian Microcosmus squamiger.
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