Ragnarök and What Comes After

What do the old accounts say about the end of the world, and what is left when it is over? This trail follows Ragnarök and the world after it through twelve entries: seven places from the Yggdrasil map, three tarot cards and two runes.

It is about the end of a world, not about personal loss, which another trail on this site takes up. The sources do not give one account: the poems and Snorri differ on details, and scholars read some of the same lines as ruin and others as renewal. The tarot cards and runes are this site’s modern readings, placed here for reflection. The Eddic places come from the Poetic Edda and Snorri as given on each page. The connections are editorial choices made for this site, not a claim that the old sources formed one system.