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Nine Daughters of Ægir and Rán Old Norse sources. Lists of their names appear twice in "Skáldskaparmál", a section of the "Prose Edda" (for detail, see "Prose Edda" section below). References to the waves as 'Ægir's daughters' appear in the "Poetic Edda". The poem "Helgakviða Hundingsbana I" describes how the hero Helgi's boat crashes through intense seas, in doing so referencing Rán, Ægir, and their daughters as personifications of the sea. For example, two sequential stanzas reference the wave daughters: <br> The daughters are mentioned several times in the "Prose Edda". Section 25 of "Skáldskaparmál" ("How shall sea be referred to?") collects manners in which poets