Norðhvalr, búrhvalr, náhvalr ok leiptr,
skeljungr, fiskreki ok skútuhvalr,
sléttibaka, skjaldhvalr ok sandlægja,
hrosshvalr, andhvalr, hrafnreyðr ok vǫgn.
Norðhvalr, búrhvalr, náhvalr ok leiptr, skeljungr, fiskreki ok skútuhvalr, sléttibaka, skjaldhvalr ok sandlægja, hrosshvalr, andhvalr, hrafnreyðr ok vǫgn.
Greenland whale, sperm whale, narwhal and white-sided dolphin, humpback, fin whale and boat-whale, nordcaper, killer whale and sei whale, horse-whale, bottlenose, lesser rorqual and orca.
[5] skjaldhvalr: ‘[…]hualr’ C, ‘skíallhualr’ B
[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).