Ran

Rán

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

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

    “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)

    “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)