HVÁLL

(-s, -ar), m. hill, hillock, knoll (dalr var í hválinum).

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m., mod. hvoll, [akin to Gr. κύκλος; also akin to hvel, hválf, prop. denoting what is convex, cp. Germ. hägel]:—a hill; not much used, hóll (q. v.) being the common word; but it is still used of a ‘dome-shaped’ hill; and in local names of farms lying under such hills, as Hváll in Saurbær in the west, Berg-þórs-hváll and Stórólfs-hváll in the south, Beigaðar-hváll in the north, Landn.; Kálfs-hváll in the east, Dropl.; Orrostu-hváll, Eg.: Hváls-maðr, m. a man from H., Sturl.; þeir stefna upp á hválinn, Nj. 69; dalr var í hválinum ok riðu þeir þangat, 197; vér vildum á hválinn ok kómumk ekki, Dropl. 22; hvála eðr hálsa, Róm. 315.