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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to SnH Lv 6II

[3] at Ránar ‘at Rán’s <sea-goddess>’: In Norse mythology, Rán, the wife of Ægir, was the goddess of the sea. She had a net with which she caught those men who went to sea, and drowned men were received by her (see SnE 1998, I, 36, 41)

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.

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