Fimbulwinter
Ragnarök's preceding freeze
Fimbulwinter is the great winter of Norse mythology—three successive winters with no intervening summer, heralding Ragnarök, the end of the world.
The name comes from Old Norse words meaning "great" or "mighty" winter.
In modern usage, it describes any especially brutal or prolonged winter: This fimbulwinter has broken every snowfall record.
Norse end times
- NorseAncient Scandinavian civilization
- apocalypseTotal civilizational collapse
- OdinChief Norse deity
- MidgardNorse human world
prophecy · twilight · gods · Fenrir · Asgard · saga · doom · Bifrost
Without termination or boundary
- snowstormHeavy winter precipitation event
- blizzardViolent prolonged snowstorm
- frostThin ice coating
- iceWater's solid form
freezing · harsh · bitter · unrelenting · sunless · darkness · glacial · permafrost
Violent, large-scale disaster
- collapseSudden structural failure
- extinctionComplete vanishing of a species
- annihilationUtter, complete destruction
- devastationSevere widespread destruction
downfall · ending · oblivion · finality · reckoning · prelude · harbinger · omen
Hard conductive solid
- black metalUncoated ferrous alloy
- VikingMedieval Nordic raider
- ScandinavianOf Denmark, Norway, Sweden
- fantasyImaginative mental wandering
Tolkien · gaming · lore · epic · dark · atmospheric · pagan · heathen
Ragnarök
Norse end times
- NorseAncient Scandinavian civilization
- apocalypseTotal civilizational collapse
- OdinChief Norse deity
Midgard · prophecy · twilight · gods · Fenrir · Asgard · saga · doom · Bifrost · Valhalla
endless
Without termination or boundary
ice · freezing · harsh · bitter · unrelenting · sunless · darkness · glacial · permafrost · howling
cataclysm
Violent, large-scale disaster
- collapseSudden structural failure
- extinctionComplete vanishing of a species
- annihilationUtter, complete destruction
devastation · downfall · ending · oblivion · finality · reckoning · prelude · harbinger · omen · foreboding
metal
Hard conductive solid
- black metalUncoated ferrous alloy
- VikingMedieval Nordic raider
- ScandinavianOf Denmark, Norway, Sweden
fantasy · Tolkien · gaming · lore · epic · dark · atmospheric · pagan · heathen · folk
Fimbulwintereternal spring
Unending vernal season
golden age · paradise · Eden · Elysium · Arcadia
winter, wintry, wintertime, winters, midwinter, wintergreen, winterize, winterish, winterizing