[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).