"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."
— Ragnarök

January 1, 1970

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Norse mythology
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Description of the state of humanity at the time of Ragnarök, in the Völuspá (c. 901 - 1000), as translated by Ursula Dronke in The Poetic Edda : Volume II : Mythological Poems (1997)