Definition of Ragnerok
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."
- Wikipedia
{ Rag"na*rok" (?), ||Rag"na*rök" (?) },
n. [Icel., fr. regin, rögn, gods
+ rök reason, origin, history; confused with ragna-
rökr the twilight of the gods.] (Norse Myth.) The
so-called "Twilight of the Gods" (called in German
Götterdämmerung), the final destruction of the world
in the great conflict between the Æsir (gods) on the one hand,
and on the other, the gaints and the powers of Hel under the
leadership of Loki (who is escaped from bondage).
{ Rag"na*rok" (?), ||Rag"na*rök" (?) },
n. [Icel., fr. regin, rögn, gods
+ rök reason, origin, history; confused with ragna-
rökr the twilight of the gods.] (Norse Myth.) The
so-called "Twilight of the Gods" (called in German
Götterdämmerung), the final destruction of the world
in the great conflict between the Æsir (gods) on the one hand,
and on the other, the gaints and the powers of Hel under the
leadership of Loki (who is escaped from bondage).
{ Rag"na*rok" (?), ||Rag"na*rök" (?) },
n. [Icel., fr. regin, rögn, gods
+ rök reason, origin, history; confused with ragna-
rökr the twilight of the gods.] (Norse Myth.) The
so-called "Twilight of the Gods" (called in German
Götterdämmerung), the final destruction of the world
in the great conflict between the Æsir (gods) on the one hand,
and on the other, the gaints and the powers of Hel under the
leadership of Loki (who is escaped from bondage).
{ Rag"na*rok" (?), ||Rag"na*rök" (?) },
n. [Icel., fr. regin, rögn, gods
+ rök reason, origin, history; confused with ragna-
rökr the twilight of the gods.] (Norse Myth.) The
so-called "Twilight of the Gods" (called in German
Götterdämmerung), the final destruction of the world
in the great conflict between the Æsir (gods) on the one hand,
and on the other, the gaints and the powers of Hel under the
leadership of Loki (who is escaped from bondage).
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- The battle at the end of the World.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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