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The Poetic Edda on Aegir

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attestation: Aegir is identified as the sea-god in connection with the narrative conclusion of Grimnismol.

"Ægir: the sea-god; cf. Lokasenna, introductory prose."
attestation: Aegir is both a giant and the god of the sea, with his home at Hlesey

"Ægir: a giant who is also the god of the sea; little is known of him outside of what is told here and in the introductory prose to the Lokasenna, though Snorri has a brief account of him, giving his home as Hlesey"
attestation: Aegir is the sea-god, also called Hler, but the name Gymir belongs to Gerth's father in the Skirnismol

"Ægir: the sea-god; Snorri gives Hler as another of his names, but he is not elsewhere called Gymir, which is the name of the giant, Gerth's father, in the Skirnismol"
attestation: Aegir used gold to light his hall, leading to the poetic phrase 'flame of the flood' meaning gold

"Ægir's use of gold to light his hall, which was often thought of as under the sea, was responsible for the phrase "flame of the flood," and sundry kindred phrases, meaning "gold.""

attestation: Ran is the wife of sea-god Aegir who drowns men using her net

"Ron: wife of the sea-god Ægir, who draws down drowning men with her net"
attestation: Gold is called 'water's flame' because Aegir the sea-god lit his hall with gold

"Water's flame: gold, so called because Ægir, the sea-god, was wont to light his hall with gold."