• Hafgufa (Old Norse: haf "sea" + Old Norse: gufa "steam"; "sea-reek"; "sea-steamer") is a sea creature, purported to inhabit Iceland's waters (Greenland...
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    Kraken (section Hafgufa)
    Hans Egede, who described the kraken in detail and equated it with the hafgufa of medieval lore. However, the first description of the creature is usually...
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    greatest whale in the world, and hafgufa, who bore all the monsters in the sea. The rocks had surely been the nose of Hafgufa; the island, Lyngbakr; and Ögmundr...
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    of these include the aspidochelone, Fastitocalon, Jasconius, Lyngbakr, Hafgufa, and various accounts of the kraken. The phrase is sometimes incorrectly...
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    whale the size of an island Great Fish in the Hebrew Bible's Book of Jonah Hafgufa, a whale of fabulous size, described as a sjóskrímsli 'sea monster' together...
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    However, the group had safely sailed through the jaws of the Sea-Reek (hafgufa), the other monster that Ögmundr had sent by magic to intercept the party...
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  • camp for recent arrivals, a Viking-Age woman describes a sea monster, Hafgufa. Lars illegally buys temproxate from a neighbour, Nabo. Ingrid wants to...
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    Middle-earth. In the Icelandic Sagas, the aspidochelone is known by the names Hafgufa and Lyngbakr. In the folklore of the Inuit of Greenland, there was a similar...
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