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After Ragnorak will that be it or will the entire cycle restart again ? If so does it not make the past actions/events leading up to the previous Ragnorak pointless ?
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Sure. Balder's assassination by Loki [via trickery] was something the Gods mourned, but Odin was aware and he is a long-planner. By allowing Balder to perish, Balder winds up safe as it were, in Hel, where he is preserved to emerge as the leader God, once the danger of Ragnarok is passed. The souls in Hel and Valhol come out for the battle; Hel itself is not involved territory, so Balder will remain in a kind of haven from the chaos, and come out afterward to act in his father's former place, for the next Age.
Reminds me of Jesus.
And I think Surtr and Frejya play a larger role, concerning the end of times. But I'm a bit rusty in explaining all of that
Gylfaginning XLI-LIVThen spake Gangleri: "Shall any of the gods live then, or shall there be then any earth or heaven?" Hárr answered: "In that time the earth shall emerge out of the sea, and shall then be green and fair; then shall the fruits of it be brought forth unsown. Vídarr and Váli shall be living, inasmuch as neither sea nor the fire of Surtr shall have harmed them; and they shall dwell at Ida-Plain, where Ásgard was before. And then the sons of Thor, Módi and Magni, shall come there, and they shall have Mjöllnir there. After that Baldr shall come thither, and Hödr, from Hel; then all shall sit down together and hold speech. with one another, and call to mind their secret wisdom, and speak of those happenings which have been before: of the Midgard Serpent and of Fenris-Wolf. Then they shall find in the grass those golden chess-pieces which the Æsir had had; thus is it said:
In the deities' shrines | shall dwell Vídarr and Váli,
When the Fire of Surtr is slackened;
Módi and Magni | shall have Mjöllnir
At the ceasing of Thor's strife.
In the place called Hoddmímir's Holt there shall lie hidden during the Fire of Surtr two of mankind, who are called thus: Líf and Lífthrasir, and for food they shall have the morning-dews. From these folk shall come so numerous an offspring that all the world shall be peopled, even as is said here:
Líf and Lífthrasir, | these shall lurk hidden
In the Holt of Hoddmímir;
The morning dews | their meat shall be;
Thence are gendered the generations.
And it may seem wonderful to thee, that the sun shall have borne a daughter not less fair than herself; and the daughter shall then tread in the steps of her mother, as is said here:
The Elfin-beam | shall bear a daughter,
Ere Fenris drags her forth;
That maid shall go, | when the great gods die,
To ride her mother's road.
lol, I have never been able to understand any lyrics sung by Amon Amarth
Líf and Lífþrasir - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaSo How does thge whole return of humans fit in ?