And at the feast
Ere they were satisfied
Shook the twigs
And looked on the blood,
They found there was
Enough at Ægir’s.
(Hymis Kvida, 1.)
Ran, who was the wife of Ægir, and like him also worshipped, was supposed to have a net in which she caught all those who were lost at sea, and the people seem to have been superstitious as to the manner in which shipwrecked persons were received by her.
“Ægir’s wife is called Ran, and their nine daughters have been named before. At that feast everything came by itself, food and drink and all that was necessary for the feast. The Asar became aware that Ran owned a net in which she caught all men that came out on the sea. Now this saying relates why the gold is called the fire,[[320]] or the light or the brightness of Ægir, or Ran, or Ægir’s daughters” (Skáldskaparmál, c. 33).
The nine daughters of Ægir and Ran had names emblematic of the sea and its waves.