**Stanza 30:** Rán is mentioned in reference to the sea.
And, from above, Sigrún, army-brave,
safeguarded them and their ship;
strongly the king’s roaring-sea beast wrenched itself
from Rán — from her hand — at Gnipalundr.
**Stanza 18:** Rán is mentioned in reference to the sea.
‘You, witch, were in front of the warlord’s ships
and lay in wait in the fjord’s mouth;
you wanted to give the prince’s warriors to Rán,
if a sharp point didn’t pierce your whale-flesh!’
Prose Introduction: Loki goes to Rán to get her net..
Then they sent Loki to procure the gold. He came to Rán and got her net and went then to Andvarafors and cast the net before the pike, and it leapt into the net.
Rán is not mentioned in this section of the text.
Chapter 24-25(p.91): In a list of kennings for the sea, one is "husband of Ran". A verse by the poet Ref also refers to Rán.
How shall sea be referred to? By calling it Ymir’s blood, visitor to the gods, husband of Ran, father of Ægir’s daughters [...] land of Ran […]
And as Ref said:
Gymir’s spray-cold spae-wife [Ran] often brings the twisted-rope-bear [ship] into Ægir’s jaws [under the waves] where the wave breaks.
Chapter 25(p.92): The sea is referred to by the kenning "Ran's mouth" in a verse.
But sea-crest-Sleipnir [ship], spray-driven, tears his breast, covered with red paint, out of white Ran’s mouth [the sea’s grasp].
Chapter 32-33(p.95): The text explains that Rán is the wife of Ægir and that she possesses a net with which she catches everyone who goes to sea. Gold can therefore be called "fire of... Rán".
Ran is the name of Ægir’s wife, and the names of their nine daughters are as was written above. At this feast everything served itself, both food and ale and all the utensils that were needed for the feast. Then the Æsir discovered that Ran had a net in which she caught everyone that went to sea. So this is the story of the origin of gold being called fire or light or brightness of Ægir, Ran or Ægir’s daughters...
Chapter 61(p.139): "Ran" is listed as a poetic term for the sea, with the meaning "plunderer".
Hefring [lifting], roller, white one and offing, Hronn [wave], Ran [plunderer], Kolga [cold one] and Himinglæva [heaven-bright]...