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Nordic mythology has foretold the End of Days with a Viking Apocalypse. The countdown to Ragnarok has begun, with just weeks until the world ends on 22 February, Norse experts have said.
A horn announced the start of the countdown from a rooftop in York. The horn belonged to the Norse god Heimdallr, who was believed to have blown it to warn people of their impending doom.
Norse mythology says that the god Odin will be killed by the wolf Fenrir and all of the other "creator" gods will fall. The world will then be born again and will be repopulated by two humans.
During the world's end, the sun's beams will become black and the weather will become treacherous, mythology states. "Brothers will fight and kill each other, sisters' children will defile kinship. It is harsh in the world, whoredom rife - an axe age, a sword age - shields are riven - a wind age, a wolf age - before the world goes headlong. No man will have mercy on another," a prophetic poem says.
The winter preceding Ragnarok will be bitterly cold - as experienced in the polar vortex sweeping across the Northern Hemisphere. Ragnarok will see humanity wiped out, with small pockets of survivors struggling for months in an Ice Age before total annihilation.
Nordic mythology has foretold the End of Days with a Viking Apocalypse. The countdown to Ragnarok has begun, with just weeks until the world ends on 22 February, Norse experts have said.
A horn announced the start of the countdown from a rooftop in York. The horn belonged to the Norse god Heimdallr, who was believed to have blown it to warn people of their impending doom.
Norse mythology says that the god Odin will be killed by the wolf Fenrir and all of the other "creator" gods will fall. The world will then be born again and will be repopulated by two humans.
During the world's end, the sun's beams will become black and the weather will become treacherous, mythology states. "Brothers will fight and kill each other, sisters' children will defile kinship. It is harsh in the world, whoredom rife - an axe age, a sword age - shields are riven - a wind age, a wolf age - before the world goes headlong. No man will have mercy on another," a prophetic poem says.
The winter preceding Ragnarok will be bitterly cold - as experienced in the polar vortex sweeping across the Northern Hemisphere. Ragnarok will see humanity wiped out, with small pockets of survivors struggling for months in an Ice Age before total annihilation.
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