For our April meeting we will be discussing Ragnarök/Ragnarøkkr (Old Norse for '"Fate of the Gods"/"Twilight of the Gods"), a series of events/disasters, foretelling of the deaths of many gods and nearly all of mankind.
Our primary sources and readings for this topic are:
(1) Völuspá stanza 40 to the end. (found in The Poetic Edda)
(2) Gylfaginning chapters 51 - 53. (found in The Prose Edda)
and a bit of review for those who've attended our last few meetings
(3) Vafþrúðnismál stanzas 44-53 (found in The Poetic Edda)
As usual we will aim to meet on the second Sunday of the month (4/12/2020) with the primary discussion / public portion of the meeting starting around 5:30 PM.
Due to the current "stay at home" order this meeting will be conducted via Skype. I will update this again with a Skype call invite code on the day of the meeting.
I just feel uncomfortable video chatting. I don't have a desktop with webcam anymore. It would be on my phone and I'd have to hold it the whole time. I'd rather just weigh in with written words. Of course, saying that now, makes me seem rather high-maintenance. Whatever is decided, I'll make it work. *just wish we could all be together* 😷 This sucks.
Lol. I've put Skype on my computer. If we end up doing something else, I'll do my best to figure it out. :)
So, at the moment it's looking like our next meeting will be virtual. I think we're leaning toward using Skype, but if people are adamant and/or passionate about any particular alternative platform, I'm open to other ideas. I just made a KoSH Skype account under the email account I have through this website ritari@keeperofseasonshall.org so feel free to add that account on Skype if you have it. I would like to try a test run for a group video chat before the meeting, so I'm hoping we can schedule something in for that as well.
Karl Seigfried has written about Ragnarok a few times. Here's a piece by him I enjoy: https://wildhunt.org/2019/02/column-ragnarok-and-odin-death-and-memory.html
Sequentia sings the stanzas from Voluspa dealing with Ragnarok on this track ("A fellr austan um eitrdala"): https://open.spotify.com/track/1nThCnTNCYSMzGiDQcsLrW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQTlszVuDfY