Ran

Rán

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

Famous quotes containing the word ran:

    “There were none of the small deer up there; they are more common about the settlements. One ran into the city of Bangor two years before, and jumped through a window of costly plate glass, and then into a mirror, where it thought it recognized one of its kind.... This the inhabitants speak of as the deer that went a-shopping.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “And here we have that splendid family
    I never ran to when I got depressed,
    The boys all biceps and the girls all chest....”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “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)