Ragnarök
Sign in to savethumb|The north portal of the 12th-century Urnes stave church has been interpreted as containing depictions of snakes and dragons that represent .
AI overview
I can't write an accurate overview based solely on this context, as it only describes architectural carvings on a church portal without explaining what Ragnarök actually is or why it matters. To provide an accurate 2-sentence overview, I would need source material that actually defines and contextualizes Ragnarök itself.
AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.
Article
25 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Presence in literature
- ''Poetic Edda''
- {{lang|non|Völuspá}}
- {{lang|non|Vafþrúðnismál}}
- {{lang|non|Helgakviða Hundingsbana II}}
- ''Prose Edda''
- ''Gylfaginning'' chapters 26 and 34
- {{lang|non|Gylfaginning}} chapter 51
- ''Gylfaginning'' chapters 52 and 53
- Archaeological record
- Thorwald's Cross
- Gosforth Cross
- Ledberg stone
- Skarpåker stone
- Theories and interpretations
- Cyclic time and ''Hoddmímis holt''
- {{lang|goh|Muspille}}, {{lang|osx|Heliand}}, and Christianity
- Proto-Indo-European basis
- Volcanic eruptions
- {{lang|non|Bergbúa þáttr}}
- Modern influences
- Citations
- General references
- External links
thumb|The north portal of the 12th-century Urnes stave church has been interpreted as containing depictions of snakes and dragons that represent .
In Norse mythology, ' (also Ragnarok'; or ; ) is a foretold series of impending events, including a great battle in which numerous great Norse mythological figures will perish (including the gods Odin, Thor, Týr, Freyr, Heimdall, and Loki); it will entail a catastrophic series of natural disasters, including the burning of the world, and culminate in the submersion of the world underwater. After these events, the world will rise again, cleansed and fertile, the surviving and returning gods will meet, and the world will be repopulated by two human survivors, Líf and Lífþrasir. is an important event in Norse mythology and has been the subject of scholarly discourse and theory in the history of Germanic studies.