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[3] óinn (m.) ‘fearful one’: Cf. the weak verb óask ‘dread, fear’, óan (or óun) f. ‘fear, distress’. This word is not found elsewhere as a serpent-heiti, but Óinn is the name of a dwarf (Þul Dverga 3/8).