Ragnarok and Odin, Death and Memory (Seigfried, Norse Mythology Blog)

An article on The Norse Mythology Blog (norsemyth.org) by Dr. Karl E. H. Seigfried, a Norse mythologist who teaches Theology and Religious History at Cherry Hill Seminary, serves as adjunct professor and pagan chaplain at Illinois Institute of Technology, and is himself a practicing Heathen priest, godhi of Thor's Oak Kindred in Chicago. Read here directly: Seigfried rejects a literal, fatalistic reading of Ragnarok, framing Odin's struggle against the coming doom as a commitment to future generations rather than a lost cause, and criticizes the Third Reich's literal, militarized use of the same myth. A practicing priest's own account of how the prophecy is held, not outside description alone.