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“Ragnarok eventually takes place and the world is destroyed. At the end of it, there’s nothing left but Hel, and the world is beginning again above her. She finds that she’s able to get up into this new world and start over, creating humanity again. So it’s a wonderfully affirming story about how a child lives through the turbulence of adolescence and comes to the end of it. We don’t need the gods any more; it’s now the time for humans. We won’t have that sort of duplicity, that scheming, that endless back and forth between the gods and the giants. It’s just humans, who now have a chance to make a better world.” Read more...
The Best Norse Mythology Books
Carolyne Larrington, Literary Scholar
