Real-Life Ragnarök Climate Disaster Detected
<div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="schema:primaryImageOfPage og:image rdfs:seeAlso" resource="https://www.ancient-origins.net/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/Ragnarok.jpeg?itok=5CgbG92Q"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.ancient-origins.net/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/Ragnarok.jpeg?itok=5CgbG92Q" width="610" height="342" alt="An epic battle scene from Ragnarok, with gods and monsters clashing violently under a bloodred sky, AI generated." /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="schema:description content:encoded"><p>No, this is not out of the Marvel Cinematic or comic universe, but it does have fantastical qualities: archaeologists in Denmark have unearthed actual evidence of a climate disaster 1,500 years ago, that may have influenced the Norse myth of Ragnarök! The legend, first appearing in the
Poetic Edda from the Icelandic
Codex Regius, describes a series of events detailing catastrophic natural disasters, culminating in the submersion of
Midgard and the deaths of gods such as
Odin,
Thor, and
Loki.</p>
<h2>Myth of Ragnarok: A Real Climate Catastrophe?</h2>
<p>The
Völuspá, one of the most primary sources for the study of
Norse mythology, with Biblical level disaster-imagining, recounts the world’s creation, its end, and eventual rebirth. The research, published in the latest edition of <a href="
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104736" rel="nofollow">
Journal of Archaeological Science Reports[/url], claims that the myth of Ragnarök may have been inspired by a real climate catastrophe that led to a population decline in Denmark around 1,500 years ago.</p>
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