Þul Hvala 2III/1 — búr ‘sperm’
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.
readings
[1] búr‑: so A, ‘kvr‑’ R, ‘kur‑’ Tˣ, ‘kyr‑’ C, ‘byr‑’ B
notes
[1] búrhvalr (m.) ‘sperm whale’: So A. Probably the same as búrungr (see Note to st. 1/7). This is also the reading of the LaufE mss. The R, Tˣ, C variant (normalised) kýrhvalr ‘cow-whale’ may be synonymous with nauthvalr ‘cattle-whale’, which is said to be an alternative term for búrhvalr (so Halldór Hermansson 1924, 8). Hence búrhvalr and kýrhvalr seem to belong to the same species (either a sperm whale or a humpback whale).