Dain

Dáin

... Dain is a name for male people ... Dáin or Dain can refer to In Norse mythology Dáin, a dwarf from Völuspá Dáinn, one of the four stags of Yggdrasill Dáinn, an elf who introduced the runes to his race according to Háva ... Dwarven King under the Lonely Mountain Dain (unit), an obsolete unit of measurement in Myanmar equalling ca 3.9 kilometres see also Bamboo (unit) ...

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