Ægir (anglicised as Aegir; Old Norse ‘sea’), Hlér (Old Norse ‘sea’), or Gymir (Old Norse less clearly ‘sea, engulfer’), is a jötunn and a personification of the sea in Norse mythology. In Old Norse records, Ægir hosts the gods in his halls and is associated with brewing ale.
In Norse mythology, Rán (Old Norse: [ˈrɒːn]) is a goddess and is also a personification of the sea. The goddess 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.
Ægir married the goddess Rán and together the two produced daughters who personify waves, the Nine Daughters of Ægir and Rán.