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Note to Þul Hvala 2III

[6] sandlægja (f.) ‘sei whale’: Lit. ‘sand-sinking one’. In Modern Icelandic, this is the term for ‘grey whale’ (Eschrichtius glaucus), but in Old Norse it is possibly another word for sandreyðr ‘sei whale’ (Balaenoptera borealis) (cf. SnE 1998, II, 382 and hrafnreyðr ‘lesser rorqual’ in l. 8 below). Sandlægja is one of the few species of whales that are not mentioned in Kgs, but it is described in Halldór Hermansson (1924, 9).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
  3. Halldór Hermansson, ed. 1924. Jón Guðmundsson and his Natural History of Iceland. Islandica 15. Ithaca and New York: Cornell University Library.

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