Thorskegga has started a series of paintings depicting the gods worshipped by the Anglo-Saxon and Norse settlers in England.
Ran is the goddess of the drowned. She drags down ships with a net. She is either the wife or daughter of the sea giant Aegir.
She welcomes drowned sailors to her halls providing the can pay her in gold. It was a tradition until recently in England for sailors to wear gold to pay for their burial in case they were lost at sea and washed ashore.
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