Jack Vance's "The Blue World" is to my mind, the seminal work of fiction on Kraken interaction with humans. I's also interesting that the protagonist Sklar Has

Jack Vance's "The Blue World" is to my mind, the seminal work of fiction on Kraken interaction with humans. I's also interesting that the protagonist Sklar Hast has a Scandinavian origin name but, that also the Kraken (Kragen in the book) originated from Scandinavian folklore. Well worth the read.