Dáinn

"Dead." One of the four harts that run in the limbs of the great ash Yggdrasil and nibble on the twigs and leaves:

Harts there are also four,

which from its summits,

arch-necked, gnaw.

Dain and Dvalin,

Duneyr and Durathror.

In the Nafnaþulur it is one of the names for hart.

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