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The Jotun are a race of elemental nature spirits, often at odds with the gods and representing the chaotic forces of nature. The Jotun hear the call and begin assembling their forces. The first, Fjalar, represents the earth the second, Gulinkambi, is the golden rooster of the gods and the third, unnamed rooster crows from the depths of Nifiheim, the frozen underworld. We zoom past the tree and see an earthly village at the onset of fimblvetr, “the great winter.” The fimblvetr ravages the townspeople, as they argue over survival and scraps of food, and from this chaos springs a worldwide civil war.Īs the battles rage, a rooster representing each of the three gathering factions crows, heralding the beginning of the end. The piece opens on Yggdrasil, the tree of life or “world tree,” an immense, holy tree that supports the infrastructure of the old Norse cosmos. Its fatalistic take on the Old Norse religion and its final glimmer of hope show a faith that the end of the world is really just the beginning of better times. Mythologically, Ragnarok completes the “story arc” of the Norse myths. Artistic liberties were taken with some of the plot points for the sake of narrative structure and to illustrate the story’s cyclical nature. The Ragnarok myth is a complex story, and it has been assembled through different literary sources, providing differing information. The earth then rises once more, new gods take control of the heavens, and the human race is born again through two survivors.

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The story encompasses a series of events, starting with a relentless winter leading to a series of civil wars across the earth, and concluding with a great battle between the gods and their adversaries, resulting in their deaths and the destruction of the earth. It can be translated as “final destiny of the gods,” or “doom of the gods,” a translation used by Richard Wagner in the final part of his The Ring of the Nibelung operas.

Twilight of the Gods depicts the story of Ragnarok, the end-of-the-world myth from Scandinavian mythology. Please join the WRP and visit the FAQ (left sidebar) for information.ĭifficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)