- hjallr
- m.1) scaffold, frame of timber;2) shed (for drying fish).* * *m. [akin to hjalli], a scaffold, a frame of timber, Gísl. 31, Mar. 557, Hkr. ii. 175 (of a pedestal); seið-hjallr (q. v.), the scaffold on which witches sat.2. a shed, esp. for drying clothes, fish, N. G. L, i. 137, H. E. i. 396, Vm. 174; fisk-h., a fish-shed; grinda-h., a shed of rails.COMPDS: hjallgrind, hjallviðr.
An Icelandic-English dictionary. Richard Cleasby and Gudbrand Vigfusson. 1874.