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In Norse mythology, Rán is a sea goddess who collects the drowned in a net. She has nine daughters with her husband Ægir. Possibly those are identical to the mothers of Heimdallr.

She is mentioned in Skáldskaparmál and the prose introduction to Reginsmál.

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