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Teutonic sea god
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aegir
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Ægir (also Æger) is a figure in Norse mythology. Aegir , Ægir , or Æger may also refer to: Aegir (moon) , a moon of Saturn AEgir (planet) or epsilon Eridani b, an exoplanet Aegir, another name for a tidal bore Trent Aegir , the tidal bore on the River Trent ...
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n. a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary) [syn: tidal bore , bore , eagre , eager ]
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n. (alternative spelling of eagre English)
Usage examples of aegir.
At the head of the stair, on the cliff-edge, were gathered Odin and his lady Frigga, old Aegir and Ran, Bragi and all the other Aesir nobles.
Beyond her were the two empty seats of Frey and Gerda, then Bragi and Idun, old Aegir and his wife, and brooding, silent Tyr.
By then she was far out on the heaving grey sea, with low-pitched grumbling on her benches, and prayers to Lord Aegir and the Thunderer.
During one of the respites, idly talking men decided that Aegir and Ran had naught to do with this awful stretch of water, and the skalds must merely have failed to make mention that here reigned Loki and his ugly get, Hela who ruled the underworld.
Ran was wife to Lord Aegir the Bountiful, and no kindly she-goddess was she.
Wotan, Aegir and other gods, Cormac understood that something was badly wrong.
Angantyr, a foe whose mettle they had duly tested, they proceeded to recover possession of a priceless treasure, a magic dragon ship named Ellida, which Aegir, god of the sea, had once given to Viking in reward for hospitable treatment, and which had been stolen from him.
When the sharp outlines of the red cliffs of Heligoland appeared, the German cruiser Seeadler came from the island to meet the squadron and reported that the coast ironclads Aegir and Odin, the cruisers Hansa, Vineta, Freya, and Hertha, together with the torpedo-boats, had set out from Wilhelmshaven during the night and had seen nothing of the enemy.
But he had lost her, when Aegir and Ran left with the other Norse gods and giants, taking their daughters with them.