Ragnarök (Ger. Götterdämmerung), the end of the world, when the gods (Odin, Thor, &c.) shall be overcome by their enemies and the world be burned up. See SCANDINAVIAN MYTHOLOGY.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 552
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