In Norse mythology, the Æsir goddess Rán and the jötunn Ægir both personify the sea, and together they have nine daughters who personify the sea waves, the names of their daughters are poetic terms fo
The nine daughters of Ægir and Rán by Hans Dahl (1849-1937)
Heimdallr lifted by the Nine Wave Maidens by Karl Ehrenberg (1882), depicts Heimdallr's mothers as "wave maidens"
The neck and Ægir's wave daughters by Nils Blommér (1850), based on a poem by Arvid August Afzelius.
Nine Mothers of Heimdallr
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In Norse mythology, the Nine Mothers of Heimdallr are nine sisters who gave birth to the god Heimdallr by the god Odin. The Nine Mothers of Heimdallr are attested in the Prose Edda, written in the 13t
Nine Daughters of Ægir and Rán
…the Prose Edda, composed in the 13th century; and in the poetry of skalds. Scholars have theorized that these daughters may be the same figures as the nine mothers of the god Heimdallr. 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…
Heimdal and his Nine Mothers by W. G. Collingwood (1908), in which Heimdallr's nine mothers are depicted as sea waves