Is Ragnarok the true prophecy of the apocalypse?

[sir pball]

The world is sprayed with poison, then burns, then is overwhelmed by the sea...

At Fenrir's side, Jörmungandr sprays venom throughout the air and the sea.
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Surtr covers the earth in fire, causing the entire world to burn.
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High responds that the earth will appear once more from the sea, beautiful and green, where self-sown crops grow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnarok

[defacto7]

1. Apocalypse... is that when the sun passes between the earth and the moon?

[Anon-C]

2. Well it is one of the most interesting and rich eschatologies...

...for certain.

[sir pball]

3. Definitely my favorite

Very little of this good-over-evil stuff. Burn it all and start over.

[abqtommy]

4. So far in my life the most credible seer I've encountered is Nostradamus

although many other prophecies have some element of truth. I have no proof that any of them,
including Ragnarök, is false.

[sir pball]

5. Oh, I don't subscribe to any of them

I just like Norse mythology in general. Sadly it's been corrupted by White Nationalist shitheels, but that's a topic for another day.

[abqtommy]

6. Well yeah, White Nationalist shitheels ruin everything. The only end times prophecy

I subscribe to is the scientific approach that provides information that earth will be destroyed in umpty million or billion years and I don't worry about that much. I figure there's go to be something in the Norse mythology since the Norse were early converts to Christianity yet have evolved some of the most evolved political and social programs to actually benefit all their citizens, but that also is a topic for another day!

[Fla Dem]

7. If you like Norse mythology you may find this Netflix series interesting. Ragnarok.

Ragnorak
This six-episode Netflix commission is the balmiest show on this list: It was filmed amid the magnificent scenery of Odda, which is practically the tropics where Norway is concerned. It’s also, surprisingly, the only one with an overt environmental theme. The villains of the piece run the town’s paper mill, contributing to the climate change that’s shrinking the local glacier (and in the process exposing old secrets fundamental to the plot).

And then there’s the biggest difference, which may help to explain Netflix’s interest: It’s a Scandinavian spin on a teenage superhero story, with a hunky but awkward high schooler (David Stakston) moving to his mom’s hometown and suddenly discovering he can throw a hammer for very long distances. This puts him on the radar of the town’s alpha family, an unusually polished and attractive bunch who are not, we soon find out, strictly human. That’s where the title “Ragnarok” — in Norse mythology, the apocalyptic final battle of the gods — comes in.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/03/arts/television/new-nordic-tv-series.html

The 1st season is only 6 episodes. I didn't think I would like it, but it almost immediately captured my attention. Just the beauty of the Nordic landscape. It's in Norwegian with subtitles. Filmed in Odda Norway. The underlining theme is the destruction of the environment and climate change. By the end of the 6th episode, it began to delve in to the whole Thor mythology.

I found your post from 2019 when I did a site search to see if anyone else had posted about the Ragnarok series.