[1] hafrhvalr (m.) ‘buck-whale’: A cpd from hafr m. ‘buck, billy-goat’ and hvalr m. ‘whale’, thus ‘male whale’ (so Nordgaard 1920, 110), and not attested elsewhere. Cf. ModIcel. höfrungur ‘dolphin’ (Delphinus delphis), which is not attested earlier than the C16th (ÍO: höfrungur).