Ragnarok

Meaning

Proper Noun

• A series of future events culminating in a battle, fought between the Æsir and einherjar on one side and the forces of Surt, Loki and Loki's children on the other, in which all of creation is burned down and almost all life is extinguished.

Related

Similar words

• apocalypse, armageddon, doomsday, Götterdämmerung, judgement day, Twilight of the Gods

Origin

• Borrowed from Old Norse ragnarǫk (modern Icelandic ragnarök), from regin + rǫk.