[8] blæjuhvalr (m.) ‘nordcaper’: Lit. ‘covered whale’. This species is not mentioned in Kgs. Blæjuhvalr may denote a nordcaper or right whale (Balaena glacialis; cf. SnE 1998, II, 247). Alternatively, it may be the same as stökkull, a fabulous whale that hunts for seafarers (so Sigfús Blöndal 1920-4, I, 91; stökkull is also a bottlenose dolphin).