Ran

Rán

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

Famous quotes containing the word ran:

    “I ... ran for Legislature [in 1832] ... and was beaten—the only time I have been beaten by the people.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    “Who ran to help me when I fell,
    And would some pretty story tell,
    Or kiss the place to make it well?
    My mother.”
    —Ann Taylor (1782–1866)

    “The first general store opened on the ‘Cold Saturday’ of the winter of 1833 ... Mrs. Mary Miller, daughter of the store’s promoter, recorded in a letter: ‘Chickens and birds fell dead from their roosts, cows ran bellowing through the streets’; but she failed to state what effect the freeze had on the gala occasion of the store opening.”
    —Administration in the State of Sout, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)