[7] búrungr (m.) ‘sperm whale’: So Tˣ. A hap. leg. Búrungr is probably the same as búrhvalr (see Kgs, Holm-Olsen 1983, 148), which is usually identified as a sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus), though Nordgaard (1920, 109-10) argues that the word may refer to a humpback whale (Megaptera novaen angliae). Neither the Rˣ variant ‘bvnvngr’ nor the other variants of this word found in C, A and B (see Readings above) can be interpreted to make any sense (cf. SnE 1998, I, 229).