Ran

Rán

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

Famous quotes containing the word ran:

    “He slipped his hand and ran away!
    He hadn’t gone a yard when—Bang!
    With open jaws, a lion sprang,
    And hungrily began to eat
    The boy: beginning at his feet.”
    —Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953)

    “The sun, the hero of every day, the impersonal old man that beams as brightly on death as on birth, came up every morning and raced across the blue dome and dipped into the sea of fire every evening. Water ran down hill and birds nested.”
    —Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

    “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)