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unusual facts about RagNaRok


Ryō Azumi

Akai Tsurugi takes place in the 10th century Nordic world, following both mortal heroes invented by the author and the Norse gods struggling against Ragnarök.


Brimir

In Norse mythology, Brimir is another name for the giant Ymir and also the name of a hall for the souls of the virtuous following the endtime conflict of Ragnarok.

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Jun Kasai in a Ragnarok and Roll Glass Crush Death Match for the UVU Championship, and the Briscoe Brothers and Devon Moore def.

Gálgviðr

In Norse mythology, Gálgviðr (Old Norse "gallows-wood") is a forest in Jotunheim, land of the jötnar, from which the rooster Fjalar is foretold to begin crowing during the onset of Ragnarok.

Geri and Freki

Bruce Lincoln further traces Geri back to a Proto-Indo-European stem *gher-, which is the same as that found in Garmr, a name referring to the hound closely associated with the events of Ragnarök.

Jesse Chambers

The 1992 limited series Armageddon: Inferno re-introduced the Justice Society of America after their disappearance into and re-emergence from the limbo dimension of Ragnarok (where they had been trapped since 1986's The Last Days of the Justice Society).

Muspilli

The poem has been theorized as a Christianized version of the pagan Ragnarök, with figures represented in 13th century sources swapped with Christian figures; Surtr replaced by the Antichrist whom Elias – replacing Thor – fights, Loki by the old fiend.

New Gods

The two planets were once part of the same world, a planet called Urgrund (German for "primeval ground"), but it was split apart millennia ago after the death of the Old Gods during Ragnarök.

Sandy Hawkins

Published in 1992, the Armageddon Inferno miniseries written by John Ostrander takes the JSA members out of Ragnarok and brings them back to earth, allowing writers to use them in future stories.

Tantalus Theatre Group

The group was started in 2003 and has produced the following original works: Toy Chest, The Strange Dreams of Nobody in Particular, The Serpent Woman (adapted from Carlo Gozzi's original), Slide, Ragnarok, Sinister Puppetmen of the Fabrication Gallery, Dreadful Penny’s Midnight Cavalcade of Ghoulish Delights, Evildoer, and Xeros.

The Roaring Trumpet

The plotline of the story is based on the myths of Thor's expedition to Jotunhem as told in the Gylfaginning section of Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda, and the Völva's prophecy regarding Ragnarok in the poem Völuspá, preserved in the Poetic Edda.

Thor Meets Captain America

The survivors of Operation Ragnarok are taken prisoner after the failed mission and are given to Thor by his father Odin.

Time of the Wolf

The film takes its title from Völuspá, an ancient Norse poem which describes the time before the Ragnarök, the end of the world.

Vígríðr

In Norse mythology, Vígríðr or Óskópnir is a large field foretold to host a battle between the forces of the gods and the forces of Surtr as part of the events of Ragnarök.


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