Apart from people, the answer is the hafgufa ("sea steam") a creature reputed to live in the Greenland Sea in days gone by. Its diet consisted of whales, ships and, from the sound of things, just about anything else. It had a singular way of obtaining food. From its huge mouth it would give a belch. The wind that emerged would carry with it a large quantity of food that the hafgufa hadn't got around to digesting. Fish would flock to this food in order to have prandial refreshment and then the hafgufa would devour them.
As to what this monstrous creature was supposed to look like, we have very little information. At night time, it would stick its head out of the water, but the dark seems to have precluded any detailed description.
No comments:
Post a Comment