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Fimbulwinter: the Winter Without End

iceland, norway, sweden, denmark

Three winters with no summer between, when the sun and moon are swallowed and the world forgets the sun — the apocalypse as climate.

Ragnarök: the Doom of the Gods

iceland, norway, sweden, denmark

The most detailed apocalypse in any tradition: a winter without end, a sea of corpses, the gods and the monsters killing each other, and the world burning — then rising green from the waves.