Rán
... Ran is the name of Ægir's wife, and their daughters are nine, even as we have written before ... 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:
“Achilles had strapped the wind
About his ankles,
He brushed rocks
The waves had flung.
He ran in armour.”
—Hilda Doolittle (18861961)
“With two sons born eighteen months apart, I operated mainly on automatic pilot through the ceaseless activity of their early childhood. I remember opening the refrigerator late one night and finding a roll of aluminum foil next to a pair of small red tennies. Certain that I was responsible for the refrigerated shoes, I quickly closed the door and ran upstairs to make sure I had put the babies in their cribs instead of the linen closet.”
—Mary Kay Blakely (20th century)
“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 (17821866)
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