Ethnozoology of Egede's "Most Dreadful Monster," the Foundational Sea Serpent

by Robert L. France

The sighting by the well-known missionaries and natural historians, Poul and Hans Egede, of an unrecognized marine animal off the coast of Greenland in 1734, which in their writings would be variably referred to as a "terribly big" or "very horrible" sea creature, or translated as a "most dreadful monster," is generally regarded as initiating the modern cultural phenomenon of sea serpents. The present ethnozoology study undertakes a detailed examination...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0999075942
• ISBN13: 9780999075944
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Society of Ethnobiology
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.0" x 10.0"