[5] skjaldhvalr (m.) ‘killer whale’: Lit. ‘shield-whale’. In Kgs (Holm-Olsen 1983, 15), this species of whale is described having ‘spots’ (ON fleckar; see geirhvalr ‘minke whale’ in st. 1/1 and Note there), or else skjaldhvalr could denote a killer whale (orca), although the usual term for that species is vǫgn(hvalr) (see l. 8 below).