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* '''Ragnarøkr:''' (''Old Norse'') fate of the gods → in Norse mythology, the end of the world and the destruction of the Norse gods → often mistranslated as ''twilight of the gods''
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* '''''Götterdämmerung'':''' ''Twilight of the Gods'', the final part of Richard Wagner's operatic tetralogy ''Der Ring des Nibelungen'' (''The Ring of the Nibelung'')
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Revision as of 10:23, 20 May 2007

  • Ragnarøkr: (Old Norse) fate of the gods → in Norse mythology, the end of the world and the destruction of the Norse gods → often mistranslated as twilight of the gods
  • Götterdämmerung: Twilight of the Gods, the final part of Richard Wagner's operatic tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung)