In Norse mythology, Aegir was the god of the sea, seashore and ocean and a son of Mistarblindi. He was a personification of the ocean, both good and bad. He caused storms with his anger and the skalds said a ship went into 'Aegir's wide jaws' when it wrecked.
Aegir was crowned with seaweed and always surrounded by nixies and mermaids while in his hall. Aegir's wife was Ran or Rana and they lived under the sea by the island Hlesey. Ran and Aegir had nine daughters who were the waves.
Aegir brewed ale for the gods after Thor brought him a big enough kettle. Every winter the gods would drink beer at Aegir's home. He was, therefore, famed for his hospitality. Gold was put onto the floor of the hall to provide light, instead of having a fire. Gold is therefore called Aegir's fire. The cups in Aegir's hall were always full, magically refilling themselves. Aegir had two servants in his hall, Fimafeng and Eldir. Sailors feared Aegir, and thought he would sometimes surface to destroy ships. Early Saxons made human sacrifices to a god of the sea, possibly connected with Aegir.
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In Norse mythology, Bylgja is a daughter of Aegir and Ran.
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In Norse mythology, Kolga is a daughter of Aegir and Ran.
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In Norse mythology Ran (Rana) is the giant wife of Aegir, a sea goddess. It is she who uses a net to draw the sailors of sinking ships to their doom.
Aegirite (Aegirine) is a rock-forming mineral of the pyroxenes group, distinguished by it's long needle-like crystals, found mainly in rocks rich in soda and poor in silica. Named after Aegir, Icelandic god of the sea. It has the formulae NaFe(Si2O6) and a relative hardness of 7.
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The Aegir was a Danish-built Icelandic fishery protection vessel of 497 tons displacement launched in 1929. The Aegir was powered by diesel engines providing a top speed of 14 knots and carried a complement of 25 and was armed with a 57 mm gun.
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HMS Apollo was a British Leander Class frigate of 2500 tons displacement built by Yarrow and launched in 1970. HMS Apollo was powered by two oil-fired boilers providing a top speed of 27 knots and a range of 6400 km at 15 knots. She carried a complement of 260 and was armed with one quad Seacat missile launcher; twin 4.5 inch guns and two 20 mm anti-aircraft guns and a Limbo anti-submarine mortar. She carried a Wasp helicopter. She served in the Cod War with Iceland in 1973 and collided with the Icelandic gunboat Aegir. She was decommissioned in 1988 sold to Pakistan for operational use.
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