Ran

Rán

... Ran is the name of Ægir's wife, and their daughters are nine, even as we have written before ... 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:

    “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)

    “Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay,
    That was built in such a logical way
    It ran a hundred years to a day,”
    —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

    “At middle night great cats with silver claws,
    Bodies of shadow and blind eyes like pearls,
    Came up out of the hole, and red-eared hounds
    With long white bodies came out of the air
    Suddenly, and ran at them and harried them.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)