It is referred to in the film as a sort of apocalypse that the Vikings
envisioned.
On 12/27/2014 03:30 AM, [email protected] [FairfieldLife] wrote:
FWIW (Wiki):
Etymology
The Old Norse <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Norse> compound
/ragnarok/ has a long history of interpretation. Its first element,
/ragna/, is unproblematic, being the genitive plural of /regin/ (n.
pl.) "the ruling powers, gods". The second element is more difficult,
as it occurs in two variants, /-rök/ and /-røkkr/. Zoega's /Old
Icelandic Dictionary/ treats the two forms as two separate compounds,
glossing /ragnarök/ as "the doom or destruction of the gods" and
/ragnarøkkr/ as "the twilight of the gods" (1910).
The plural noun /rök/, has several meanings, such as "development,
origin, cause, relation, fate."^[2]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnar%C3%B6k#cite_note-2> The word
/ragnarök/ as a whole is then usually interpreted as the "final
destiny of the gods."^[3]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnar%C3%B6k#cite_note-FOOTNOTESimek2007259-3>
The singular form /ragnarøk(k)r/ is found in stanza 39 of the /Poetic
Edda/ poem /Lokasenna <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lokasenna>/, and
in the /Prose Edda/. The noun /røkr, røkkr/ means "twilight" (from a
verb /røkkva/ "to grow dark"), suggesting a translation "twilight of
the gods". This reading was widely considered a folk-etymological
corruption, or a learned reinterpretation, of the original term due to
the merger of /ǫ/ and /ø/ in Old Icelandic after ca. 1200^[4]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnar%C3%B6k#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBjordvandLindeman2007856.E2.80.93857-4>
(nevertheless giving rise to the concept of /Götterdämmerung
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6tterd%C3%A4mmerung>/ "Twilight of
the Gods" in the German reception of Norse mythology^[5]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnar%C3%B6k#cite_note-FOOTNOTELindow2001254-5>
). Nevertheless, Haraldur Bernharðsson in a 2007 paper suggested that
the singular form /-røkr/ "twilight" (from a Proto-Germanic */rekwa/)
might have been the original reading.^[6]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnar%C3%B6k#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBernhar.C3.B0sson200730.E2.80.9332-6>
Haraldur Bernharðsson argues instead that the words /ragnarök/ and
/ragnarøkkr/ are closely related, etymologically and semantically, and
suggests a meaning of "renewal of the divine powers."^Ragnarök -
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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
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