Note 204 — XII THE MARVELS OF THE ICELANDIC SEAS: WHALES; THE KRAKEN
Laurence Marcellus Larson translation
Probably the beluga, also called white whale. The other varieties named in this paragraph, excepting the beaked whale and the baleen whale seem not to have been identified with any known types of whales. It has been suggested that some of them may have been sharks. See Nansen, In Northern Mists, II, 243.