How eager Ran is to capture those who venture out upon her domain is also illustrated in another part of Fridthjof’s Saga, where King Ring and his queen Ingeborg ride over the ice on the lake to a banquet. Fridthjof went along on skates. Thus Tegner again:
They speed as storms over ocean speed;
The queen’s prayers little King Ring doth heed.
Their steel-shod comrade standeth not still,
He flieth past them as swift as he will.
Many a rune on the ice cutteth he;
Fair Ingeborg’s name discovereth she.
So on their glittering course they go,
But Ran, the traitress, lurketh below.
A hole in her silver roof she hath reft,