"The Giant Squid, The Mythical Kraken"

Ian Fleming's James Bond parallels not only Poul Anderson's Dominic Flandry but also Anderson's The Merman's Children because Bond, like the mermen, fights a giant squid. For their fight, see Fighting The Kraken.

"So this was the giant squid, the mythical kraken that could pull ships beneath the waves, the fifty-foot-long monster that battled whales, that weighed a ton or more."
-Ian Fleming, Dr No (London, 1989), XVIII, p. 163.

The mermen stab the eyes. Bond stabs an eye. Both squids die.

Fleming verged on sf by describing a species that had not yet been seen in its natural habitat.

For uses of the word "kraken" in Anderson's Technic History, see Kraken. Once again, good night. I must finish rereading Dr No before I can continue to reread Anderson's "Territory."