The Halden Hound (Norwegian: Haldenstøver), is a medium sized Norwegian dog breed of the hound class, used for hunting hares and other plains quarry. It resembles an American Foxhound but is smaller. It was named after Halden, a town in southeastern Norway.
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—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)