<P> In Norse mythology, Rán is a goddess and a personification of the sea . Rán and her husband Ægir, a jötunn who also personifies the sea, have nine daughters, who personify waves . The goddesses is frequently associated with a net, which she uses to capture sea - goers . According to the prose introduction to a poem in the Poetic Edda and in Völsunga saga, Rán once loaned her net to the god Loki . </P> <P> Rán is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources; the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson; in both Völsunga saga and Friðþjófs saga hins frœkna; and in the poetry of skalds . </P>

Who was the norse goddess of the sea