Norse Ragnarok Mythology

Battle of the doomed gods by friedrich wilhelm heine 1882 ragnarok is the cataclysmic destruction of the cosmos and everything in it even the gods.

Norse ragnarok mythology. In norse mythology ragnarök ˈræɡnəˌrɒk ˈrɑːɡ listen is a series of events including a great battle foretold to lead to the death of a number of great figures including the gods odin thor týr freyr heimdallr and loki natural disasters and the submersion of the world in water. In the myths an axe age a sword age shields will be gashed. According to the legend the world will resurface the surviving gods will meet and the world will be repopulated by two human survivors. In norse mythology ragnarok is a series of apocalyptic events that will define the end of the world where giants of frost and fire will band together to fight against the gods in a final battle that will ultimately destroy the planet submerging it under water.

The ragnarök is fully described only in the icelandic poem völuspá sibyl s prophecy probably of the late 10th century and in the 13th century prose edda of snorri sturluson d. A later form of the word ragnarok is ragnarokkr which means darkness or twilight of the gods. Ragnarök or ragnarok which in old norse means either destiny or dissolution rök of the gods or rulers ragna is a pre viking mythic tale of the end and rebirth of the world. Ragnarok in norse mythology was the predestined death of the germanic gods.

The battle will take place on the plains called vigrid. The vikings believed that one day the world as we know it would come to an end they called this day for ragnarok old norse ragnarökr. For the vikings the myth of ragnarok was a prophecy of what was to come at some unspecified and unknown time in the future but it had profound ramifications for how the vikings understood the world in. Doom of the gods in scandinavian mythology the end of the world of gods and men.

A three year winter led to a final battle on the vigrid plain where the gods and the frost giants fought the epic final battle. First of all midgard will be wrenched and racked by wars for three winters. When norse mythology is considered as a chronological set of tales the story of ragnarok naturally comes at the very end. There will be a wind age and a wolf age before the world is wrecked.

Brothers will be drenched in one another s blood. Fathers will slaughter sons. Ragnarok is not only the doom of man but also the end of the gods and goddesses.