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Legends

Sea-monsters, drowned bells and wish-granting fish — retold plainly, never without saying where each came from.

Legends

The island that dives

Sailors land on an island, drive in stakes, light a fire. The island feels the heat and goes down.

Physiologus, Greek, c. 2nd century CE
Legends

The kraken, entered as an animal

A bishop questioned sailors, weighed their answers, and put the kraken into a work of natural history. That is precisely why the…

Erik Pontoppidan, Det første Forsøg paa Norges naturlige…