Dáinn (Norse dwarf)

Dáinn (Norse dwarf)

Dáinn ("Dead") is a dwarf in Norse mythology. His name is found in the name of king Högni's sword Dáinsleif ("Dáinn's legacy"), which always kills a man when it is drawn.

In the Hyndluljóð (7) he is said to have made Freyja's boar Hildisvíni with another dwarf called Nabbi.

Dáinn is also a dwarf in the dwarf-þula of the Völuspá (11) and in a stanza by Sigvatr Þórðarson but in the Hávamál (153) he is said to be an elf who carved the runes.

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