In Norse mythology the rooster’s crowing foretells the beginning of which cataclysmic event?

‘Ragnarok’ is a series of events, including a great battle, foretold to lead to the death of a number of great figures, including the gods Odin,Thor, Tyr, Heimdallr, and Loki, plus natural disasters and the submersion of the world in water. ‘Ragnarok’ is an important event in Norse mythology and has been the subject of scholarly discourse and theory in the history of Germanic studies.

Subsequent to these cataclysmic events however, the mythology describes a world that will surface anew and fertile with the surviving and returning gods who will meet again when the world will be repopulated by two human survivors.

This event is attested to primarily in the ‘Poetic Edda, an unnamed collection of Old Norse poems compiled in the 13th century taken from earlier traditional sources.The word ‘Ragnarok’ is from Old Norse, translated to mean ‘Fate of the gods’ and ‘Twilight of the Gods’.

Various archeological objects have been identified as depicting events from ‘Ragnarok’ including one artifact called Thorwald’s Cross, found on the grounds of Kirk Andreas, Isle of Man. It is identified as a partially surviving rune stone that is dated at 940 CE.

This Norse mythology inspired the eponymous TV series by the same name. A threaded Norse theme takes place in the town of Edda in Western Norway, where a teen-aged boy named Magne comes to see himself as the embodiment of Thor fighting against those who are polluting and destroying the planet.