Their call will fill your heart with terror.

The land will shake, the boast will crack.

Hunger will come to the land when all the cattle have died.

Evil and wicked, their call carries fear in its back.

Nautshval,

The Nautshval, which translates as cow-whale, is one of the Illhveli that once filled the heart of every Icelandic fisherman with fear. This particular one, the second biggest of them all, had a supernatural sense and would show up on the surface if its name was said out loud.

Nautshval were toothed whales. They had a large muzzle with two big rounded nostrils that work as a battle horn. Male nautshval had larger heads with a protuberance that resembled a long bull's horn.

Some had described this whale as...

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