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Note to Þul Hvala 2III

[8] hrafnreyðr (m.) ‘lesser rorqual’: Lit. ‘raven-whale’. This species is described in Halldór Hermansson (1924, 10) and may be the same as hrafnhvalr ‘sei whale’ (a type of rorqual) mentioned in Kgs (Holm-Olsen 1983, 15), also called hrefna. See Note to l. 6 above.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Holm-Olsen, Ludvig, ed. 1983. Konungs skuggsiá. 2nd rev. edn. Norrøne tekster 1. Oslo: Norsk historisk kjeldeskrift-institutt.
  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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