ragnarǫk
See also: ragnarok, Ragnarok, ragnarök, and Ragnarök
Old Norse
FWOTD – 21 December 2012
Etymology
From regin (“gods”) + rǫk (“fate, judgment”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈrɑɣnɑˌrɒk/
Noun
ragnarǫk n pl
- the fate of the gods; Ragnarok
- the Vǫluspá (Hauksbók version, with normalized orthography)
- Geyr Garmr mjǫk
- fyr[ir] Gnípahelli;
- festr man slitna,
- en freki renna.
- Fram sé ek lengra,
- fjǫld kann ek segja
- um ragnarǫk
- rǫmm sigtíva.
- Garm bays loudly
- before Gnipahellir;
- the fetter shall break,
- and the greedy wolf [shall] run.
- For I see far [i.e. much],
- I can say a lot
- about the fate of the gods (Ragnarok),
- the strong deities.
- Vǫlsungakviða in forna, Helgakviða Hundingsbana II, verse 39, 40 or 41
- Hvárt eru þat svik ein,
- er ek sjá þykkjumk,
- eða ragnarǫk,
- ríða menn dauðir, […]
- Is this a deception,
- which I think I see,
- or the doom of the gods (Ragnarok)
- that dead men ride, […] ?
- the Vǫluspá (Hauksbók version, with normalized orthography)