Hafrhvalr, geirhvalr ok hafgufa,
hnísa, hafstrambr ok hnýðingar,
reyðr, reyðarkalfr ok rauðkembingr,
búrungr, rostungr ok blæjuhvalr.
Hafrhvalr, geirhvalr ok hafgufa, hnísa, hafstrambr ok hnýðingar, reyðr, reyðarkalfr ok rauðkembingr, búrungr, rostungr ok blæjuhvalr.
Buck-whale, minke whale and sea-fumer, porpoise, hafstrambr and long-finned pilot whales, rorqual, rorqual-calf and red-crest, sperm whale, walrus and nordcaper.
[7] búrungr: so Tˣ, ‘bvnvngr’ R, ‘bunnungr ok’ C, ‘brvvngr’ A, ‘bruunngr’ B
[7] búrungr (m.) ‘sperm whale’: So Tˣ. A hap. leg. Búrungr is probably the same as búrhvalr (see Kgs, Holm-Olsen 1983, 148), which is usually identified as a sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus), though Nordgaard (1920, 109-10) argues that the word may refer to a humpback whale (Megaptera novaen angliae). Neither the Rˣ variant ‘bvnvngr’ nor the other variants of this word found in C, A and B (see Readings above) can be interpreted to make any sense (cf. SnE 1998, I, 229).