1 höfrungr (hǫfrungr)
m. a dolphin, prop. a ‘he-goat,’ from hafr, because of the dolphin’s tumbling; the word is not found in old writers. höfrunga-hlaup, n. a kind of athletic sport, ‘dolphin-leap,’ a kind of leap-frog.
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