Magni and Móði, Thor's sons, survive the flames and flood of Ragnarök and together claim Mjölnir, carrying their father's hammer into the renewed world.
After Ragnarök, Baldur and Höðr return together from Hel to the renewed world, the slayer and the slain reconciled at last in the green fields of a reborn earth.
Líf and Lífþrasir survive the fires of Ragnarök, nourished by morning dew in their hidden shelter, and emerge to repopulate the green earth that rises from the waters.
Ragnarök is the prophesied doom of the Æsir, foretold in Völuspá, in which the gods march to their final battle against the forces of chaos and the old world is destroyed.
Asgard, the realm of the gods, is destroyed at Ragnarök when the forces of chaos overrun it. The surviving gods later gather at Iðavöllr, where Asgard once stood.
At Ragnarök, the fire giants cross Bifröst and the rainbow bridge shatters under their weight, severing the connection between Asgard and Midgard.
The Einherjar, warriors gathered in Valhalla since the world's beginning, march forth at Ragnarök to fight alongside the gods in the final battle on the plain of Vígríðr.
At Ragnarök, Fenrir breaks free from Gleipnir and advances with jaws gaping from earth to sky. He devours Odin, fulfilling the prophecy the gods tried to prevent by binding him.
Freyr rides to the final battle of Ragnarök without his sword, which he gave away to win Gerðr, and falls to Surtr's flaming blade as the worlds burn.
Garmr howls before Gnipahellir as the first omen of Ragnarök — a refrain repeated three times in the Völuspá, each cry marking a new wave of doom as the world hurtles toward its end.
At Ragnarök, the magical bond Gleipnir breaks, freeing the wolf Fenrir who has been bound since the gods tricked him, costing Týr his hand.
At Ragnarök, Heimdall blows the Gjallarhorn to summon the gods to battle. He fights Loki on the plain of Vígríðr, and they slay each other, as told in the Völuspá.
At Ragnarök, Hel releases her countless dead to march against the gods aboard the ship Naglfar, the vessel made of dead men's nails sailing from her cold dominion.
Líf and Lífþrasir shelter in Hoddmímir's Wood through the fires of Ragnarök, preserving the human race through the destruction so that life may begin again in the renewed world.
Hoenir survives Ragnarök and dwells in the renewed world, where he casts lots and chooses fortunes as the gods did in the old age, as described in the Völuspá.
Jörmungandr's release of his tail signals the start of Ragnarök. The World Serpent emerges onto land for the first time, spewing venom that poisons sky and sea, and advances to Vígríðr where he battles Thor to mutual destruction.
At Ragnarök, the frost giants march from Jötunheim to join the final assault on the gods. Hrym leads them aboard Naglfar, sailing from the east to converge with Surtr's forces on the plain of Vígríðr.
At Ragnarök, Loki breaks free from his bonds and captains Naglfar, the ship of the dead made from the fingernails of corpses, leading an army of the damned against the Æsir on the plain of Vígríðr.
Mánagarmr will swallow the moon and drench the heavens with blood at Ragnarök, as described in Völuspá stanza 40 and Gylfaginning chapter 12.
The Völuspá prophesies that Midgard will be destroyed at Ragnarök — the earth sinks into the sea, fires consume the world — before rising again green and renewed.
At Ragnarök, the sons of Múspell ride forth from Muspelheim led by Surtr. His flaming sword consumes the world, fulfilling the cycle that began when Muspelheim's fire first met Niflheim's ice.
At Ragnarök, Naglfar breaks free from its moorings and sets sail with the hosts of the dead aboard, carrying them to the final battle on the plain of Vígríðr.
After Ragnarök, the dragon Níðhöggr is seen flying over the renewed earth bearing corpses in its wings, a final ominous image in the Völuspá's prophecy.
At Ragnarök, Njörðr returns to Vanaheim, the homeland he left as a hostage after the Æsir-Vanir War, surviving the destruction that consumes the old world.
At Ragnarök, Odin leads the einherjar into the final battle but meets his end when the great wolf Fenrir swallows him.
At Ragnarök, Surtr advances from the south with a sword brighter than the sun, slays Freyr on the plain of Vígríðr, and flings fire across all the worlds until the earth sinks into the sea and the heavens split apart.
At Ragnarök, the warriors of Valhalla march through the hall's 540 doors to join the gods in the final battle on the plain of Vígríðr, fulfilling the purpose for which Odin gathered them.
Váli, Odin's avenger-son, survives the fires and flood of Ragnarök and gathers with Víðarr among the gods who inhabit the renewed world.
At Ragnarök, the Valkyries ride to the final battlefield of Vígríðr. They have spent ages selecting warriors for this moment, and now the Einherjar they chose march through Valhalla's doors to face the forces of chaos.
Víðarr avenges his father Odin at Ragnarök by destroying Fenrir, then walks alive into the renewed world that rises from the sea, one of the few gods to survive the twilight of the old order.
⚠ Völuspá 54 describes stabbing the wolf to the heart; Gylfaginning 51 gives tearing the jaws apart or stabbing through the palate as variants.
Yggdrasil trembles and groans as Ragnarök begins, the ancient ash shuddering from root to crown as the bonds of the world loosen and the forces of chaos break free.
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