page_title: Hafgufa
section_title: Likenings to other sea monsters
hierarchical_section_title: Hafgufa / Likenings to other sea monsters
caption_attribution_description: Book illustration Manuscriptum translationis germanicae Cod. Pal. Germ. 60, fol. 179v (University Library Augsburg, Germany), published around 1460 AD English: upfront Brendan of Clonfert/Saint Brendan of Clonfert Deutsch: vorne: Brendan der Reisende Français&#160;: Brendan de Clonfert
context_page_description: Hafgufa is the name of a massive sea monster reported in the Örvar-Odds saga to have existed in the Greenland Sea which was said to disguise itself as an island or pair of rocks rising from the sea.
context_section_description: The 17th-century Danish physician Thomas Bartholin once published in a journal that he recalled having heard about St. Brendan saying Mass obliviously atop Hafgufa (he was either mistaken or misinformed; or possibly interpreted it with his own local gloss; the correct beast in this legend was the giant fish Jasconius). Later, William Blackwood and Laurence Marcellus Larson presumed the beasts mentioned in the konungs skuggsjá, St. Brendan's saga, and several other sea monster sightings must have been what they knew as the kraken.
caption: St. Brendan says Mass atop Jasconius
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