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ˈrɑg nəˌrɒkrag·narök

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Gotterdammerung, Ragnarok, Twilight of the Godsnoun

    myth about the ultimate destruction of the gods in a battle with evil

Wiktionary

  1. Ragnaroknoun

    The final battle between gods and giants, involving all creation, which brings the end of the world as it is known and almost all life.

  2. Etymology: From ragnarǫk (Icelandic ragnarök), from regin + rǫk

Wikipedia

  1. ragnarok

    In Norse mythology, Ragnarök ( (listen); Old Norse: Ragnarǫk) is a series of events, including a great battle, foretelling the death of numerous great figures (including the gods Odin, Thor, Týr, Freyr, Heimdall, and Loki), natural disasters, and the submersion of the world in water. 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. Ragnarök is an important event in Norse mythology and has been the subject of scholarly discourse and theory in the history of Germanic studies. 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 in a single poem in the Poetic Edda, the event is referred to as Ragnarøkkr (Old Norse for 'Twilight of the Gods'), a usage popularised by 19th-century composer Richard Wagner with the title of the last of his Der Ring des Nibelungen operas, Götterdämmerung (1876), which is "Twilight of the Gods" in German.

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  1. ragnarok

    Ragnarok, in Norse mythology, refers to an eventual series of catastrophic events leading to the death of a number of major figures, the natural disasters, and the subsequent submersion of the world in water. It's often considered the Norse equivalent of the apocalypse. After these events, the world is said to resurface anew and fertile, where the surviving gods will meet, and the world will be repopulated by two human survivors.

Wikidata

  1. Ragnarök

    In Norse mythology, Ragnarök is a series of future events, including a great battle foretold to ultimately result in the death of a number of major figures, 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, a usage popularized by 19th century composer Richard Wagner with the title of the last of his Der Ring des Nibelungen operas, Götterdämmerung.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Ragnarök

    rag′na-rōōk′, n. the end of the world when the gods (Odin, Thor, &c.) shall be overcome by their enemies and the world burnt up. [Ice. ragna rökr, twilight of the gods—rögn, régin, the gods, rökr, darkness; but orig. ragna rök, the history of the gods—rök, reason, judgment.]

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Ragnarök

    in the Norse mythology the twilight of the gods, when it was predicted "the Divine powers and the chaotic brute ones, after long contest and partial victory by the former, should meet at last in universal, world-embracing wrestle and duel, strength against strength, mutually extinctive, and ruin, 'twilight' sinking into darkness, shall swallow up the whole created universe, the old universe of the Norse gods"; in which catastrophe Vidar and another are to be spared to found a new heaven and a new earth, the sovereign of which shall be Justice. "Insight this," says Carlyle, "of how, though all dies, and even gods die, yet all death is but a Phoenix fire-death, and new birth into the greater and the better as the fundamental law of being."

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of ragnarök in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of ragnarök in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

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    Rag means "love", Narok means "hell" in Thai.
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