Dáin
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Dáin or Dain can refer to: Dain is a name for male people
- In Norse mythology:
- Dáin, a dwarf from Völuspá
- Dáinn, one of the four stags of YggdrasillFour stags of YggdrasillIn Norse mythology, four stags or harts eat among the branches of the World Tree Yggdrasill. According to the Poetic Edda, the stags crane their necks upward to chomp at the branches. Their names are given as Dáinn, Dvalinn, Duneyrr and Duraþrór...
- Dáinn, an elf who introduced the runesRunic alphabetThe runic alphabets are a set of related alphabets using letters known as runes to write various Germanic languages before the adoption of the Latin alphabet and for specialized purposes thereafter...
to his race according to Hávamál
- In J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium:
- Dáin I, last King of the Dwarves in the Grey Mountains
- Dáin II IronfootDáin II IronfootDáin II Ironfoot was a Dwarf and king of Erebor in J. R. R. Tolkien's high fantasy legendarium concerning Middle-earth. His story is told primarily in Appendix A of The Lord of the Rings, and he appears briefly in The Hobbit....
, Dwarven King under the Lonely Mountain
- Dain (unit), an obsolete unit of measurement in Myanmar equalling ca 3.9 kilometres; see also Bamboo (unit)