Philosophical
What if destruction is the point?
In Norse mythology, the gods aren't immortal. They know exactly how the world ends. They know who kills whom. They know they will die. And they fight anyway. That's Ragnarök.
Brothers will fight and kill each other... an axe age, a sword age... before the world sinks.— Völuspá, Poetic Edda
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The thinker
Ancient Scandinavian Worldview
The Norse mythological tradition, preserved in the Poetic Edda and Prose Edda, offers one of the most detailed pre-Christian European cosmologies, compiled by scholars like Snorri Sturluson in 13th-century Iceland.
Based on Völuspá (The Prophecy of the Seeress) — Poetic Edda, summarised and reframed by Insights.
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