Words at Play : Monster of the Day
"Below the thunders of the upper deep,
Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea,
His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep
The Kraken sleepeth…" Alfred Tennyson, the Kraken, from Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, 1830
Definition:
: a fabulous Scandinavian sea monster perhaps imagined on the basis of chance sightings of giant squids
Photo credit: Tory Novikova