Felassan talks about the halla a bit (and he might have been working for Solas, given how his final line was likely going to reference how Briala reminded him of a certain mythological figure), but the Dalish revere the halla as special, and the halla are said to lead the dead into the afterlife, so I think that their religion figures heavily into how the People view them. It's possible that there could have been more to it, at one point in time.
The codex reads, "No creature is more revered by the Dalish than the halla. No other animal has a god of its own. These white stags are much larger than ordinary deer, and the Dalish halla keepers carve their antlers as they grow, making them curve into intricate designs. In ancient times, these stags bore elven knights into combat, but since the fall of the Dales, they are used less as mounts and more to pull the aravels."
It's funny because they're not actually much larger than ordinary deer... they look much smaller than the harts etc. So I really think what happened is the harts were in fact supposed to be halla... but then the devs changed their minds and now we get to ride around on red deer/American elk things, and... halla are now tiny.
... I wanted to ride a halla. They're so pretty...
Either way, I remember Felassan said something about halla being much smarter than horses and therefore harder to ride. New codex info in DA:I suggests that they literally cannot be tamed any other way than by being friends; people who try to "break" them like some people do horses, often end up impaled on halla antlers, or killing the halla because they just don't respond well to that kind of treatment.
Also remember that just because what the Dalish believe is incorrect, doesn't mean there is not even a grain of truth in it. For instance, they were right that Fen'harel sealed away their gods. They might be right that elves became halla, even if they are wrong about Ghilan'ain becoming a halla herself. I repeat my suspicion that they were originally her slaves.
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