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Hafgufa (Old Norse: haf "sea" + Old Norse: gufa "steam"; "sea-r****"; "sea-steamer") is a sea creature,
purported to
inhabit Iceland's
waters (Greenland...
- 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...
- 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...
- However, the
group had
safely sailed through the jaws of the Sea-R**** (
hafgufa), the
other monster that Ögmundr had sent by
magic to
intercept the party...
- camp for
recent arrivals, a Viking-Age
woman describes a sea monster,
Hafgufa. Lars
illegally buys
temproxate from a neighbour, Nabo.
Ingrid wants to...
- 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...
