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 three gipsies a-come to my door,
    And down-stairs ran this a-lady, O!”
    —Unknown. The Wraggle Taggle Gipsies (l. 1–2)

    “A steam ran small and terrible and shrill;
    it was so still;
    the stream ran from the oak-copse
    and returned and ran
    back into shadow.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “I have led her home, my love, my only friend.
    There is none like her, none.
    And never yet so warmly ran my blood
    And sweetly, on and on
    Calming itself to the long-wished-for end,
    Full to the banks, close on the promised good.”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)