The End of the World
You know when the end of the world is coming, when the sun becomes
black and the weather is bad, when Fenrisulfur (the wolf Fenrir) becomes
loose, when wars between fathers and sons are fought, when parents sleep
with their children (everyone sleeps with everyone else), then Askur Yggdrasill
(the tree) will shake in huge earthquakes. In Ragnarok (the End of the
World) these disasters will come. The wolf will eat the sun, the ship Naglfar
will become loose, the Sons of Muspell will go crazy and burn the world
with Surtur as their leader, the earth will sink in the ocean and the stars
will disappear from the sky.
You can connect the end of the world to corruption and deceit by saying:
After the giants' and gods' long lives, their bad deeds add up until everything
and everyone rebells. Then comes the end of the world.
After the End of the World
This picture is drawn by Arndis
Sveinsdottir
Everyone dies. The universe burns and everything becomes black.
But out of the ocean a new world will rise. Baldur and Hodur will be reborn
and they will rebuild life on earth. Everything will be beautiful and peaceful
and then a powerfull being from god's world will come and rule everything.
To this day man has not agreed on who this being is.
You do not have to go far to find a similar description, e.g. in
the Bible. The description is divided into 3 parts as is done in Voluspa.
"In the beginning God created the earth", that is the first part. Next
everything goes down the drain because of the corruption in humanity, humans
are punished, the world is burned. Then God and Jesus rebuild a new world
and that world will exist forever.