Ragnarök
In the Scandinavian Mythologie, the Ragnarök (literally Consommation of the Destiny of the Powers ) is the battle of the End of the world, the destiny from which cannot escape the gods, the destruction of Ásgard and the revival of the world.
This confrontation which will take seat on the plain of Vígríd will oppose the gods, the Ases, carried out by Odin and supported by the warriors died on the combat being involved in the Valhöll, the Einherjar, with wire of Muspell carried out by Surt, with the giants of ice and Loki, the god of fire, like various monsters of which the wolf Fenrir and the marine monster Jörmungand. The latter will receive the support of deaths unworthy of the Niflhel, the hell.
Fenrir, wildest out of the monsters, will kill Odin before being completed by Vidar. After a long combat, Thor will kill finally Jörmungand, but he will perish shortly after of the continuations of the venom which the snake spit to him above during the battle. Loki and Heimdall, the guard of the door of Ásgard, will die too. Týr, for its part, will kill another giant wolf of the name of Garm but will succumb then to its wounds after its victory. The majority of the other gods and giants will also end up dying in the combat.
Several gods will survive in particular the wire of Odin, Vidar, Vali and Hœnir; wire of Thor, Modi and Magni which will inherit Mjollnir its hammer. As for Baldr it will return from the world of darkness.
Only two human, Lif and Lifthrasir, which at the beginning of the battle will have found refuge in the tree crowned Yggdrasil, will survive. After carnage they will go down again from there and be able to rebuild a new world and a new humanity.
Transcribed after the christianization of Scandinavia, the myth such as it reached us is marked by a clear Christian influence. The primary independent source relating to Ragnarök is the Völuspá.
Internal bond
- Ragnarökr
- Twilight of the gods
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