In Norse folklore, Ragnarök (( listen); Old Norse: Ragnarǫk) is a collection of events, consisting of a terrific battle, foretelling the death of a number of excellent figures (including the gods Odin, Thor, Týr, Freyr, Heimdallr, and also Loki), all-natural calamities as well as the submersion of the globe in water. After these events, the globe will certainly climb again, washed and also productive, the enduring and also returning gods will certainly fulfill and also the globe will be repopulated by two human survivors. Ragnarök is a vital occasion in Norse mythology as well as has been the subject of scholarly discussion as well as concept in the background of Germanic studies. The occasion is testified largely in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources and also the Prose Edda, created in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson. In the Prose Edda and in a single rhyme in the Poetic Edda, the occasion is described as Ragnarøkkr (Old Norse for ...