7 Creepiest Creatures from Scandinavian Legends 》

The ancient Scandinavians and Vikings were a harsh bunch. This can be clearly seen in their myths and the kinds of creatures they chose to depict in them. Let’s take a look at some of the weirdest and creepiest creatures in all of the Nine Realms!

There are dozens of theories and guesses about this infamous sea monster. Some of them argue that the Kraken lives off the coast of Norway and Iceland and is so immense that sailors often confused it with a small island. Others say that a Kraken settled in the Bermuda Triangle, causing all those mysterious disappearances in the area. The first mentions of this giant cephalopod appeared hundreds of years ago among Icelandic sailors. Rumor has it that the Kraken’s tentacles are so enormously strong that they can drag even the largest warship to the bottom of the sea. The sailors believed that the Kraken can digest swallowed food for up to three months and release so much excrement in the process that huge schools of fish always follow its wake. In the late 1770s, Captain Robert Jameson said that he and his crew saw a huge body around 2.5 kilometers in length and almost 10 meters above water appear from the depths, then plunge back. The sailors followed this monstrosity and caught so many fish that they filled the whole ship with it.