Posted on 02/19/2014 9:15:53 PM PST by DogByte6RER
Clear your calendars: Viking apocalypse scheduled for Saturday
Thor, Odin, Loki all scheduled to attend epic battle hastening world's end
Now's the time to cash out your life insurance policy and have a little fun, because, according to Norse mythology, the world is ending this Saturday.
Sorry to be a bummer, but you should know we're about 100 days into an epic battle that will culminate with the earth falling into the sea, NPR explains.
On the bright side, at least you'll have an excuse for not going to your nephew's Chuck E. Cheese's party on Sunday.
For those whose understanding of Norse mythology begins and ends with the Marvel Comics' version of "Thor," the story behind Ragnarok, aka the "Viking apocalypse," or "doom of the gods," is arguably more spectacular and imaginative than anything Hollywood could dream up.
Here's what's coming, according to Time magazine. On Saturday a huge battle commences among the various Norse gods. All the heavy hitters will be in attendance — Thor, Odin and Loki to name but a few.
They'll fight (and when gods fight, it gets messy). Eventually, the Earth will split open, Viking-Mythlogy.com explains. Residents of the underworld will surface.
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Excellent!
SWEET, a whole LOT better than that Mayan Apocalypse which just kinda fizzled...
I don’t know about Saturday. That gives me no time at all to get the Ragnarok cards out. The local Hallmark shop tells me there’s a run. I could have bought them cheap last month but did I listen to the old crone throwing the bones? Noooooo...
Great movie, despite Banderas.
But then, I hardly noticed him prancing amongst the men, really.
:)
Is it Y2k yet?
Yes,. Can I cheer for the Viking Kitties?
It can’t be a proper apocalypse without kitties.
Made me think of the Death By Naked Chase scene in Monty Python’s “Meaning of Life”:
Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life (1983)
# 21
This best death scene was taken from “Part VII: Death” of the comedy film.
As punishment for telling sexist jokes (”the crime of first-degree making of gratuitous, sexist jokes in a moving picture”), criminal Arthur Charles Herbert Runcie MacAdam Jarrett (Graham Chapman) was offered execution by a method of his own choosing.
He selected a mad dash-pursuit by a group of bare-chested women (with brightly colored crash helmets matching their bikini bottoms) who would chase him off a cliff.
If your sword is in your hand at the end you get to sit at the good table in Valhalla.
Love it! And I’m a natural blonde too!!!!
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