Porter Rockwell
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As I understand it, nearly all of the Norse gods (and everything else) died in Ragnarok, and the world essentially was reborn. This leads to a fairly obvious problem. If your average Viking raider actually believed that, then there were no more gods as far as he was concerned. So, how (for example) did the Valkyrie pick up heroes from the battlefield if the gods were dead?
Just as a suggestion to get things rolling, perhaps the commanding role that Ragnarok has in today's understanding of Norse myths was actually not part of the belief of the Vikings at the time and was a latter day invention by the people who recorded the few records we have. (Mainly the Prose Edda and Poetic Edda, which were recorded centuries later by people who may have had ulterior motives.)
Just as a suggestion to get things rolling, perhaps the commanding role that Ragnarok has in today's understanding of Norse myths was actually not part of the belief of the Vikings at the time and was a latter day invention by the people who recorded the few records we have. (Mainly the Prose Edda and Poetic Edda, which were recorded centuries later by people who may have had ulterior motives.)