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Ragnarok
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ragnarok ragnarök Ragnarök ragnarǫk
English
2008 October 31
Ragnarök
Alternative forms
en Ragnarök ragnarök
Etymology
en ine-pro *h₃reǵ-
Borrowed from en non ragnarǫk (modern is ragnarök), from non regin gods + non rǫk fate, judgment.
Pronunciation
en /ˈɹæɡ.nəˌɹɒk/ UK
en /ˈɹæɡ.nəˌɹɔk/ US /ˈɹæɡ.nəˌɹɑk/ cot-caught
en en-us-Ragnarok.ogg US
en Rag na rok
Proper noun
en Norse mythology A series of future events culminating in a battle, fought between the Æsir and the einherjar on one side, and the forces of Surtr, Loki and Loki's children on the other, in which all of creation is burned down and almost all life is extinguished.
en apocalypse armageddon doomsday Götterdämmerung judgement day Twilight of the Gods
VIII II 274 Wilhelmina weeps, now and then, with her good Sonsfeld; hopes nevertheless there will be some dawn to this ragnarök, or general ‘twilight of the gods.’
en 1902 Macmillan and Co. Historical Lectures and Essays w:Charles Kingsley Ancient Civilisation And all that is before them and the whole civilised world, would be long centuries of anarchy such as the world has not seen for ages—a true Ragnarok, a twilight of the very gods, an age such as the wise woman foretold in the old Voluspà.
en 1916 February w:H. P. Lovecraft The Teuton's Battle-Song United Amateur https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/30637/pg30637-images.html But this heaven was not to last forever. Some day would come Ragnarok, or the Twilight of the Gods, when all creation would be destroyed, and all the Gods and men save Alfadur perish. Surtur, after killing the last of these Gods, would burn up the world.
Translations
the final battle in Norse mythology
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 諸神的黃昏 zhū shén de huánghūn
Danish: da ragnarok
Dutch: nl ragnarok
Estonian: et ragnarök
Faroese: fo ragnarøk
Finnish: fi ragnarök
French: fr Ragnarök m
Georgian: ka რაგნაროკი
German: de Ragnarök n f, de Götterdämmerung f
Hungarian: hu Ragnarök
Icelandic: is Ragnarök
Japanese: ja ラグナロク Ragunaroku, ja 神々の黄昏 かみがみのたそがれ, kamigami no tasogare
Kazakh: kk құдайлардың ымырты
Korean: ko ^라그나로크, ko 신들의 황혼
Kyrgyz: ky кудайлардын күүгүмү
Marathi: mr राग्नारोक
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb ragnarok n
Nynorsk: nn ragnarok n
Persian: fa رگناروک ragnârok
Portuguese: pt Ragnarok m
Russian: ru Рагнарёк, ru Судьба богов, ru Гибель богов
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Рагнарек m, sh Рагнарок m
Latin: sh Ragnarek m, sh Ragnarok m
Spanish: es ragnarok m
Swedish: sv Ragnarök
Ukrainian: uk Ра́гнарок m, uk Ра́ґнарок m, uk Ра́гнаре́к m
en Eschatology Afterlife
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Ragui^naróki^
Proper noun
m
pt Norse mythology en Ragnarok end of the world in Norse mythology