Ran

Rán

... Ran is the name of Ægir's wife, and their daughters are nine, even as we have written before ... gold with them on any voyage, so that if they drowned while at sea, Ran would be pleased by their gift ...

Famous quotes containing the word ran:

    “If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened—that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death. ... “Who controls the past,” ran the Party slogan,”controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.””
    —George Orwell (1903–1950)

    “There were three gipsies a-come to my door,
    And down-stairs ran this a-lady, O!”
    —Unknown. The Wraggle Taggle Gipsies (l. 1–2)

    “Imagining that I could
    A greater with a lesser pang assuage
    Or but to find if withered vein ran blood,
    I tore my body that its wine might cover
    Whatever could recall the lip of lover.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)