Probably a mistake for Rodanim (רודנים), the inhabitants of Rhodos, which is how the Septuagint text renders it; or just as possibly an error for Dardanim (דרדנים) = the Trojans.
And if neither of these "corrections" is correct, then it probably refers to the city of Dodona in Epirus, the oldest known Greek settlement, the site of Zeus's sacred oak tree, and the second major oracular shrine of the anient Greeks, after Delphi. Either way it is a Phoenician/Greek tribe, and as such ethnically related to the tribe of Dan (see "The Leprachauns of Palestine"), and to the Pelishtim (Philistines).
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