- höfrungr
- 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.
An Icelandic-English dictionary. Richard Cleasby and Gudbrand Vigfusson. 1874.