[1] hallarr (m.) ‘elder’: A hap. leg. whose origin is unknown. The name may be related to ON hǫll, New Norw. hyll ‘elder’, Russian kalina ‘snowball tree’ (adopted in this edn; see ÍO: hallarr). According to Holthausen (1948, 104), the heiti is a loanword from OFr. hallier ‘bushes’.