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Ragnarok en · PROPN

Pronunciation

• /ˈɹæɡ.nəˌɹɑk/ (US, cot-caught-merger)
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• /ˈɹæɡ.nəˌɹɒk/ (UK)
• /ˈɹæɡ.nəˌɹɔk/ (US)

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse ragnarǫk (modern Icelandic ragnarök), from regin (“gods”) + rǫk (“fate, judgment”).

Meanings

1. (Norse) 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.
   • 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. 1902, Charles Kingsley, “Ancient Civilisation”, in Historical Lectures and Essays, Macmillan and Co.:
   • 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. 1916 February, H. P. Lovecraft, “The Teuton's Battle-Song”, in United Amateur:
   • 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.’ 1858, Thomas Carlyle, chapter VIII, in History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book VII, page 274:

Forms

Synonyms

doomsday · apocalypse · Twilight of the Gods · Götterdämmerung · armageddon · judgement day

Translations (32)

nl ragnarok (the final battle in Norse mythology) · hu Ragnarök (the final battle in Norse mythology) · ko 라그나로크 (the final battle in Norse mythology) · sh Рагнарек (the final battle in Norse mythology) · is Ragnarök (the final battle in Norse mythology) · sh Ragnarek (the final battle in Norse mythology) · es ragnarok (the final battle in Norse mythology) · fi ragnarök (the final battle in Norse mythology) · nb ragnarok (the final battle in Norse mythology) · fo ragnarøk (the final battle in Norse mythology) · uk Ра́гнарок (the final battle in Norse mythology) · ru Рагнарёк (the final battle in Norse mythology) · et ragnarök (the final battle in Norse mythology) · mr राग्नारोक (the final battle in Norse mythology) · ka რაგნაროკი (the final battle in Norse mythology) · nn ragnarok (the final battle in Norse mythology) · sv Ragnarök (the final battle in Norse mythology) · da ragnarok (the final battle in Norse mythology) · sh Ragnarok (the final battle in Norse mythology) · uk Ра́ґнарок (the final battle in Norse mythology) · ky Рагнарөк (the final battle in Norse mythology) · fr Ragnarök (the final battle in Norse mythology) · de Götterdämmerung (the final battle in Norse mythology) · ja ラグナロク (the final battle in Norse mythology) · sh Рагнарок (the final battle in Norse mythology) · fa رگناروک (the final battle in Norse mythology) · cmn 諸神的黃昏 /诸神的黄昏 (the final battle in Norse mythology) · pt Ragnarok (the final battle in Norse mythology) · ru Судьба богов (the final battle in Norse mythology) · uk Ра́гнаре́к (the final battle in Norse mythology) · ja 神々の黄昏 (the final battle in Norse mythology) · de Ragnarök (the final battle in Norse mythology)