How did the Kraken get his name?

Answer 1

It depends on the language, in Scandinavian it means close to 'unhealthy' animal - or twisted.

Take to modern German, it's octopus.

So you can see where they got the word for the legendary modern beast.

Answer 2

Kraken is the world's gigantic squid that lives in the Norwegian Sea. The kraken lives in the sea bed and when a ship comes by its long tenentacles grab the sail and sink the ship to the sea floor where it eats the ship and the passengers.

The sea monster looks just like a squid but the size of a small island. It has 8 red tentacles, a beak that is bigger then a ship and to big red eye that is bigger then 6 humans. This sea monster is 13-15 m length and also the height of the kraken can reach up to the top of a sail. The tenentacles are estimated to be 13 metres.

The kraken can eat anything even a shark. It is said that the sea monster eats ship, humans, squids, fish, whales, pirates and sailors. When the Kraken attacked a ship, it wrapped its arms around the hull and capsizes it.

The kraken is so big that some says it lives in Norway, Iceland and the Scandinavia seas. But mostly in the Scandinavia seas and Norway.

Probably no legendary creature was as horrifying as the Kraken, a giant sea monster. There are lots of pictures of the kraken also poems and stories. Some clam to have said that the kraken still lives down in the daps.

Answer 3

Scandinavian:

krake, a word designating an unhealthy animal, or something twisted.

German:

octopus, but can also refer to the legendary Kraken.