fiord

Nowhere do these terrific forces appear more formidably conjoined than in the surprising strait known as the Lyse-Fiord.

In the Lyse-Fiord, the sea is almost always tranquil; the sky above is serene; the place terrible.

Then Brouk at that word so wrathful grew, The keys he into the salt fiord threw.

The author has seen a whale in precisely similar circumstances in a Norwegian fiord.