("day", modern , the god of the daytime, a son of Delling (god of twilight) and Nótt . Dagr, the Bright and the Fair, drove across the sky in a chariot every day, pulled by a horse named Skinfaxi . Skinfaxi's mane lights up the earth and sky. Nótt's equivalent horse, Hrimfaxi , lights up the night.
The ''d''- Rune ( Unicode U+16DE ) is called ''Daeg'' "day" in the Anglo-Saxon Rune Poem . The rune is also part of the Older Futhark , with a reconstructed Proto-Germanic name . The corresponding letter of the Gothic Alphabet 𐌳 ''d'' is called ''dags''.
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