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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'')
 
* '''''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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* '''Ragnar Lodbrok:''' a 9th century Danish warlord, said by some to have fathered Ivar the Boneless, who was a prominent Norse king of Dublin
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001600160331&q1=Ragnar Third Census of Finnegans Wake]
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** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnar_Lodbrok Wikipedia]
  
  
 
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Latest revision as of 10:32, 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)