Oh look, it's a dain.
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So, it's actually two dain, two red ones. 

In this text attributed to Gaston Febus. Genève, Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 169

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In the initial 'Description', the word occurs in f. 9 and f. 73, and the transcriptions seem clear enough (wdIk), yet it is apparent from the context that the word should be 'daim', the French word for a fallow deer.

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So, is this a dialectical variation, a scribal error, or what?
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