In Norse mythology, Ragnarök
(UK /ˈræɡnərɜrk/,[2] US /ˈrɑːɡnərɒk/,[3]) is a series of future events,
including a great battle foretold to ultimately result in the death of a number
of major figures (including the gods Odin,
Thor,
Týr, Freyr, Heimdallr, and Loki),
the occurrence of various natural disasters, and the subsequent submersion of
the world in water. Afterward, the world will resurface anew and fertile, the
surviving and returning gods will meet, and the world will be repopulated by
two human survivors. Ragnarök is an important event in the Norse canon, and has
been the subject of scholarly discourse and theory.
The event is attested primarily in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century
from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson. In the Prose Edda, and a
single poem in the Poetic Edda, the event is referred to as Ragnarök
or Ragnarøkkr (Old Norse "Fate of the Gods" or "Twilight
of the Gods" respectively), a usage popularized by 19th-century composer Richard Wagner with the title of the last of his Der Ring des
Nibelungen operas, Götterdämmerung
(1876).
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