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Hafgufa (haf "sea" + gufa "steam"; "sea-reek"; "sea-steamer") is a sea creature, purported to inhabit Iceland's waters (Greenland Sea) and southward toward Helluland.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 38 relations: Aspidochelone, Örvar-Oddr, Biodiversity Heritage Library, Blackwood's Magazine, Brendan the Navigator, Burping, Chumming, Danes, Didacticism, Erica (plant), Everyman's Library, Finnur Jónsson, Greenland, Greenland Sea, Hans Egede, Helluland, Icelandic Physiologus, Jacqueline Simpson, Jón lærði Guðmundsson, Konungs skuggsjá, Kraken, Legendary creature, Legendary saga, Lyngbakr, Mass (liturgy), Moravians, Old Norse, Old Norwegian, Ole Worm, Philosophy, Physician, Physiologus, Prose Edda, Richard Constant Boer, Saga, Sea monster, Snout, Thomas Bartholin.

  2. Canadian legendary creatures
  3. Creatures in Norse mythology
  4. Mythological aquatic creatures
  5. Scandinavian legendary creatures
  6. Sea monsters

Aspidochelone

According to the tradition of the Physiologus and medieval bestiaries, the aspidochelone is a fabled sea creature, variously described as a large whale or vast sea turtle, and a giant sea monster with huge spines on the ridge of its back. Hafgufa and aspidochelone are sea monsters.

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Örvar-Oddr

Örvar-Oddr (Ǫrvar-Oddr, "Arrow-Odd" or "Arrow's Point") is a legendary hero about whom an anonymous Icelander wrote a fornaldarsaga in the latter part of the 13th century.

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Biodiversity Heritage Library

The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives.

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Blackwood's Magazine

Blackwood's Magazine was a British magazine and miscellany printed between 1817 and 1980.

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Brendan the Navigator

Brendan of Clonfert (c. AD 484 – c. 577) is one of the early Irish monastic saints and one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland.

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Burping

Burping (also called belching and eructation) is the release of gas from the upper digestive tract (esophagus and stomach) of animals through the mouth.

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Chumming

Chumming (American English from Powhatan) is the blue water fishing practice of throwing meat-based groundbait called "chum" into the water in order to lure various marine animals (usually large game fish) to a designated fishing ground, so the target animals are more easily caught by hooking or spearing.

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Danes

Danes (danskere) are an ethnic group and nationality native to Denmark and a modern nation identified with the country of Denmark.

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Didacticism

Didacticism is a philosophy that emphasizes instructional and informative qualities in literature, art, and design.

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Erica (plant)

Erica is a genus of roughly 857 species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae.

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Everyman's Library

Everyman's Library is a series of reprints of classic literature, primarily from the Western canon.

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Finnur Jónsson

Finnur Jónsson (May 29, 1858 – March 30, 1934) was an Icelandic-Danish philologist and Professor of Nordic Philology at the University of Copenhagen.

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Greenland

Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat,; Grønland) is a North American island autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.

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Greenland Sea

The Greenland Sea is a body of water that borders Greenland to the west, the Svalbard archipelago to the east, Fram Strait and the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Norwegian Sea and Iceland to the south.

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Hans Egede

Hans Poulsen Egede (31 January 1686 – 5 November 1758) was a Dano-Norwegian Lutheran missionary who launched mission efforts to Greenland, which led him to be styled the Apostle of Greenland.

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Helluland

Helluland is the name given to one of the three lands, the others being Vinland and Markland, seen by Bjarni Herjólfsson, encountered by Leif Erikson and further explored by Thorfinn Karlsefni Thórdarson around AD 1000 on the North Atlantic coast of North America.

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Icelandic Physiologus

The Icelandic Physiologus is a translation into Old Icelandic of a Latin translation of the 2nd-century Greek Physiologus.

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Jacqueline Simpson

Jacqueline Simpson (born 1930) is a prolific, award-winning British researcher and author on folklore.

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Jón lærði Guðmundsson

Jón lærði Guðmundsson (1574–1658) was an Icelandic autodidact, poet, and alleged sorcerer.

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Konungs skuggsjá

Konungs skuggsjá (Old Norse for "King's mirror"; Speculum regale, modern Kongsspegelen (Nynorsk) or Kongespeilet (Bokmål)) is a Norwegian didactic text in Old Norse from around 1250, an example of speculum literature that deals with politics and morality.

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Kraken

The kraken is a legendary sea monster of enormous size, per its etymology something akin to a cephalopod, said to appear in the sea between Norway and Iceland. Hafgufa and kraken are mythological aquatic creatures, Scandinavian legendary creatures and sea monsters.

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Legendary creature

A legendary creature (also called a mythical or mythological creature) is a type of fantasy entity, typically a hybrid, that has not been proven and that is described in folklore (including myths and legends), but may be featured in historical accounts before modernity.

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Legendary saga

A legendary saga or fornaldarsaga (literally, "story/history of the ancient era") is a Norse saga that, unlike the Icelanders' sagas, takes place before the settlement of Iceland.

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Lyngbakr

Lyngbakr (Icelandic, lyngi "heather" + bak "back") is the name of a massive whale-like sea monster reported in the Örvar-Odds saga to have existed in the Greenland Sea. Hafgufa and Lyngbakr are creatures in Norse mythology, mythological aquatic creatures and sea monsters.

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Mass (liturgy)

Mass is the main Eucharistic liturgical service in many forms of Western Christianity.

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Moravians

Moravians (Moravané or colloquially Moraváci, outdated Moravci) are a West Slavic ethnographic group from the Moravia region of the Czech Republic, who speak the Moravian dialects of Czech or Common Czech or a mixed form of both.

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Old Norse

Old Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian is a stage of development of North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages.

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Old Norwegian

Old Norwegian (gammelnorsk and gam(m)alnorsk), also called Norwegian Norse, is an early form of the Norwegian language that was spoken between the 11th and 14th century; it is a transitional stage between Old West Norse and Middle Norwegian.

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Ole Worm

Ole Worm (13 May 1588 – 31 August 1654), who often went by the Latinized form of his name Olaus Wormius, was a Danish physician, natural historian and antiquary.

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Philosophy

Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, value, mind, and language.

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Physician

A physician, medical practitioner (British English), medical doctor, or simply doctor is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the study, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments.

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Physiologus

The Physiologus is a didactic Christian text written or compiled in Greek by an unknown author in Alexandria.

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Prose Edda

The Prose Edda, also known as the Younger Edda, Snorri's Edda (Snorra Edda) or, historically, simply as Edda, is an Old Norse textbook written in Iceland during the early 13th century.

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Richard Constant Boer

Richard Constant Boer (31 January 1863, Warnsveld – 20 August 1929, Amsterdam) was a Dutch linguist who specialized in Old Norse.

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Saga

Sagas are prose stories and histories, composed in Iceland and to a lesser extent elsewhere in Scandinavia.

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Sea monster

Sea monsters are beings from folklore believed to dwell in the sea and are often imagined to be of immense size. Hafgufa and sea monster are mythological aquatic creatures and sea monsters.

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Snout

A snout is the protruding portion of an animal's face, consisting of its nose, mouth, and jaw.

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Thomas Bartholin

Thomas Bartholin (Latinized as Thomas Bartholinus; 20 October 1616 – 4 December 1680) was a Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian.

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See also

Canadian legendary creatures

Creatures in Norse mythology

Mythological aquatic creatures

Scandinavian legendary creatures

Sea monsters

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafgufa

Also known as Hafgufu.