Whallfisk

• Walfisch: (German) whale

• whalefish: whale

• Annals of Dublin: record that in 1351 a school of whales (“turlehides”) was cast ashore

• whall: wall

• fisk: (Danish) fish

• fisk: a royal treasury

• St Brendan and the Whale: an episode in the Voyage of St Brendan the Abbot, in which the saint and his colleagues mistake a whale for an island in the ocean; they go "ashore", but when they light a fire on the animals's back it wakes up and they are forced to beat a hasty retreat!