Hwæl

According to the Old English Dictionary:

hwæl

Add: A large kind of whale (as compared with hran, q.v.) :-- Hran oððe hwæl ballena, Wrt. Voc. ii. 10, 67. Hwæl ballenam .i. diabolum, An. Ox. 6, 12. God gesceóp þá micelan hwalas (cete grandia), Gen. 1, 21. Hwælas, Angl. viii. 310, 18. hwæl