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De Polypis. Crustacean-like sea monsters attacking manned ship

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English: Polypis (usually construed as octopus, but here a giant sea-crayfish or lobster) attacking a ship with man on board. Asthton states that in Olaus's works "kraken is represented as a crayfish or lobster",[1] and reprints the same woodcut illustration.[2]
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Source Olaus Magnus (1555) "Liber XXI. Cap. X" in Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus, Rome: Giovanni M. Viotto, p. 763
Author Olaus Magnus

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