Ragnarok: Crash Course World Mythology #24

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John Horgan
by CrashCourse
published on 23 October 2017

Ragnarok! It's the end of the world, Norse style. It's got everything you want in an apocalypse. Earthquakes, destruction, armies of the dead, a giant evil wolf, giants with flaming swords, and a kind of happy ending. It's got it all. But is it really Norse? It wasn't written down until after Christianity had arrived in Europe. So how much influence is there?

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CrashCourse. (2017, October 23). Ragnarok: Crash Course World Mythology #24. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.worldhistory.org/video/1332/ragnarok-crash-course-world-mythology-24/

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