Nafnaþulur section of Skáldskaparmál, Rán appears in a list of goddesses (Old Norse ásynjur). Völsunga saga and Friðþjófs saga hins frœkna Rán receives a single mention in Völsunga saga. Like in the prose introduction to the eddic poem Reginsmál (discussed above), "they sent Loki to obtain the gold. He went to Ran and got her net." In the legendary saga Friðþjófs saga hins frœkna, Friðþjófr and his men find themselves in a violent storm, and the protagonist mourns that he will soon rest in Rán's bed: The protagonist then decides that as they are to "go to Rán" (at til Ránar skal fara) they would better do so in style with gold on each man. He divides the gold and talks of her again: Scholarly reception and interpretation According to Rudolf Simek, "... Rán is the ruler of the realm of the dead at the bottom of the sea to which people who have drowned go." Simek says that "while Ægir personifies the sea as a friendly power, Rán embodies the sinister side of the sea, at least in the eyes of the late Viking Age Icelandic seafarers." See also Sessrúmnir, the hall of the goddess Freyja, which may have been conceived of as a ship Notes References Byock, Jesse. 1990. Trans. The Saga of the Volsungs. University of California Press. Bjarni Einarsson (ed.), Egils saga (London: Viking Society for Northern Research, 2003), Kershaw, Nora. 1922. Trans. Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse Poems. Cambridge at the University Press. Eiríkr Magnússon and Morris, William. Trans. 1875. Three Northern Love Stories and Other Tales. Ellis & White. Faulkes, Anthony (Trans.). 1995 [1989]. Trans. Edda. Everyman. Faulkes, Anthony. (Editor). 1998. Trans. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. I. Viking Society for Northern Research. Gudbrandur Vigfusson. 1874. Trans. An Icelandic-English Dictionary: Based on the Ms. Collections of the Late Richard Cleasby. Clarendon Press. Bellows, Henry Adams. 1936. Trans. The Poetic Edda. Princeton University Press. New York: The American-Scandinavian Foundation. Larrington, Carolyne (Trans.). 1999 [1996]. Trans. The Poetic Edda. Oxford World's Classics. Simek, Rudolf. 2007 [1993]. Translated by Angela Hall. Dictionary of Northern Mythology. D.S. Brewer. Ásynjur Sea and river goddesses Death goddesses Norse underworld Personifications in Norse mythology el:Ραν ko:란