End of the World Myths Compared

Only the Norse texts narrate the end of the world. Voluspo tells Ragnarok stanza by stanza and the renewal after it. The Greek texts have no ending — Hesiod's Iron Age is the end of a race, and Zeus's threat is to destroy men, not the world. Ovid's Jove recalls a fated fire. The Egyptian texts read here promise the dead millions of years and describe no end.