halling

Another proposed that I should tell them about the brownie who danced the Halling dance with the lassie.

He drew slowly back, but once in the middle of the floor, he made a spring and danced the halling alone.

Then, in a great whirl, the Halling dancer would send his knife spinning through the air with its message of death.

The most fantastic of the Norwegian dances is the Halling Dance, still seen on special occasions.

"I could sing as finely as I could dance the Halling," he said to Knutty, with a grim smile.