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"I know you," said Maddy. "You're -" "What's a name?" Loki grinned. "Wear it like a coat; turn it, burn it, throw it aside, and borrow another. One-Eye knows; you should ask him." "But Loki died," she said, shaking her head. "He died on the field at Ragnarok." "Not quite." He pulled a face. "You know there's rather a lot the Oracle didn't foretell, and old tales have a habit of getting twisted." "But in any case, that was centuries ago," Maddy said bewildered. "I mean - that was the End of the World, wasn't it?" "So?" said Loki impatiently. "This isn't the first time the world has come to an end, and it won't be the last either."
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loki
names
ragnarok
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Joanne Harris |
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Lif and Lifthrasir will have children. Their children will have children. There will be life and new life, life everywhere on earth. That was the end; and this is the beginning.
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ragnarok
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Kevin Crossley-Holland |
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It will never end. Till the world ends in the chaos of Ragnarok, we will fight for our women, for our land, and for our homes. Some Christians speak of peace, of the evil of war, and who does not want peace? But then some crazed warrior comes screaming his god's filthy name into your face and his only ambitions are to kill you, to rape your wife, to enslave your daughters, and take your home, and so you must fight.
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chaos
christians
daughters
end
enslave
evil
face
fight
god
home
kill
must
name
peace
ragnarok
rape
take
war
warrior
wife
world
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Bernard Cornwell |
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Cousin Jimmy says that a man in Priest Pond says the end of the world is coming soon. I hope it won't come till I've seen everything in it.
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end-of-the-world
ragnarok
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L.M. Montgomery |
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But if you write a version of Ragnarok in the twenty-first century, it is haunted by the imagining of a different end of things. We are a species of animal which is bringing about the end of the world we were born into. Not out of evil or malice, or not mainly, but because of a lopsided mixture of extraordinary cleverness, extraordinary greed, extraordinary proliferation of our own kind, and a biologically built-in short-sightedness.
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end-of-the-world
environmental-catastrophe
gods
loki
myth
mythology
norse-mythology
ragnarok
self-destruction
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