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In the English-speaking world, examples in fine literature are [[Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson|Alfred Tennyson]]'s 1830 irregular [[sonnet]] ''[[The Kraken (poem)|The Kraken]]'',<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/tennyson/kraken.html |title=The Kraken (1830) |website=Victorianweb.org |date=2005-01-11 |access-date=2011-11-21}}</ref> references in [[Herman Melville]]'s 1851 novel ''[[Moby-Dick]]'' (Chapter 59 "Squid"),<ref>{{cite book |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2701 |title=Moby Dick; Or, The Whale |last=Melville |first=Herman |author-link=Herman Melville |date=2001 |orig-year=1851 |publisher=[[Project Gutenberg]]}}</ref>
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{{main|Kraken in popular culture}}
Although fictional and the subject of myth, the legend of the Kraken continues to the present day, with numerous references in film, literature, television, and other popular culture topics.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cgdclass.com/stowellbarbara/spring_240_portfolio/ccsite/fantasy/culture.html |title=Under the Sea: The Kraken in Culture |first=Barbara A. |last=Stowell |date=2009 |website=cgdclass.com |access-date=April 8, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923202113/http://www.cgdclass.com/stowellbarbara/spring_240_portfolio/ccsite/fantasy/culture.html |archive-date=2015-09-23}}</ref>
Examples include: [[John Wyndham]]'s novel ''[[The Kraken Wakes]]'' (1953), the [[Kraken (Marvel Comics)|Kraken]] of [[Marvel Comics]], the 1981 film ''[[Clash of the Titans (1981 film)|Clash of the Titans]]'' and its [[Clash of the Titans (2010 film)|2010 remake of the same name]], and the [[Seattle Kraken]] professional ice hockey team. Krakens also appear in video games such as ''[[Sea of Thieves]]'', ''[[God of War II]]'', ''[[Return of the Obra Dinn]]'' and ''[[Dredge (video game)|Dredge]]''. The kraken was also featured in two of the [[Pirates of the Caribbean (film series)|Pirates of the Caribbean]] movies, as the pet of the fearsome Davy Jones in the 2006 film, ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest]]'' and appears in the film's sequel, ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End|At World's End]]''. In [[George R.R. Martin]]'s fantasy novel series, [[A Song of Ice and Fire]] and its [[HBO]] series adaptations, [[Game of Thrones]] and [[House of the Dragon]], the mythical kraken is the [[sigil]] of [[House Greyjoy]] of the Iron Islands.
Two features on the surfaces of other celestial objects have been named after the Kraken. ''[[Kraken Mare]]'', a major sea of liquid ethane and methane, is the largest known body of liquid on [[Saturn]]'s moon [[Titan (moon)|Titan]].<ref name = "USGS"/><ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-04-25 |title=Kraken Mare: The Largest Methane Sea Known To Humankind |url=https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/which-is-the-largest-methane-sea-known-to-us.html |access-date=2023-10-13 |website=WorldAtlas |language=en-US}}</ref> ''[[Kraken Catena]]'' is a pit chain and possible tectonic fault on [[Neptune]]'s moon [[Triton (moon)|Triton]].<ref name="Stern1999">{{cite conference |url=https://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/LPSC99/pdf/1766.pdf |title=Triton's Surface Age and Impactor Population Revisited (Evidence for an Internal Ocean) |last1=Stern |first1=A. S. |last2=McKinnon |first2=W. B. |date=March 1999 |bibcode=1999LPI....30.1766S |location=Houston, TX |conference=30th Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference |id=1766}}</ref>
==See also==
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