Unfortunately for the gods, it ended pretty poorly for everyone involved. The gods of Asgard made their last stand on the Vigrid plains: Odin squared off with Fenrir, Thor took on the world serpent Jörmungandr, and Freyr battled Surtr. As Fenrir dragged the sun from the sky, swallowing it whole in his mighty jaws, Surtr used a massive flaming sword to cut a swath across the Earth, leaving death, destruction, and smoldering ruin in his wake. Loki then proceeded to pay a visit to yet another of his brood, his daughter Hel, the goddess of the dead, who gave her father an army of undead soldiers and a boat built from the nail clippings of the deceased, which they used to set sail for Asgard, the ancestral home of the Norse gods.Īlongside an army of giants, led by the powerful fire giant Surtr, Loki and his army proceeded to raze Asgard to the ground. Meanwhile, another of Loki’s children, the massive sea serpent Jörmungandr flew into a rage, causing the oceans to overflow and flood the mainland. Together, they proceeded to wreak havoc across the nine realms.
Massive earthquakes followed, freeing the mischievous god Loki and his son, the gigantic wolf Fenrir, from imprisonment. What followed was a brutal, three-year-long winter that plunged the world into cold and darkness.
It all began with mankind treating one another like absolute garbage, which sounds familiar if you’ve read the comment section lately. No, not the Bruce Willis asteroid-drilling movie the end of days, or as it can be translated the “Twilight of the Gods (or the “Doom of the Gods” if you’re nasty). Told of primarily in the 13th century Old Norse texts, the Poetic Edda and Snorri Sturluson’s Prose Edda, Ragnarok is the equivalent of armageddon in Norse mythology. Ragnarok isn’t just the end of Marvel’s Thor as we know him it’s the end of the world.
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