Associated with the sea.

Name(s): The word rán is Old Norse/Old Icelandic for “robbery, plundering.” This likely refers to the perception that Ran steals the lives of those who are lost at sea.

Spouses: Aegir.

Children: Children (with Aegir): Blóðughadda (“bloody hair”); Bylgja (“billow”); Dröfn (“comber”); Dúfa (“wave”); Hefring (“lifting”); Himinglæva (“transparent on top”); Hrönn (“wave”); Kólga (“cool wave”); Unn (“wave”). Each daughter is named for a different type of wave.

Affiliations: Ran is counted among the Asynjur, and thus among the Aesir.

Tales: In Reginsmal, Ran loaned her net to Loki in order to catch the dwarf Andvari, who had turned himself into a pike.

Hall: Ran is the mistress of Aegir’s hall.

Other details: Those who lose their lives at sea are said to have been taken by Ran, or taken into her net.