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Ragnarök

The Norse telling of gods and monsters at the world’s end and its renewal speech. Not apocalypse as a general word, and not every end-times sermon.

Also known as Ragnarok

Norse tradition

Ragnarök appears in Norse tradition.
The Poetic Edda’s Völuspá tells the Norse ending of gods and monsters and the renewal speech — Ragnarök. A named Norse end episode in that poem-corpus, not apocalypse as a general word and not every end-times sermon.
from Anonymous (Eddic poems); Carolyne Larrington (translation) · Poetic Edda, medieval Icelandic compilation; Larrington trans. 1996/2014
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Poetic Edda · Anonymous (Eddic poems); Carolyne Larrington (translation)
The Poetic Edda, trans. Carolyne Larrington.