Talk:Ragnarok
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Does anyone know exactly what the word means? I've turned up "rain of ashes", "rain of dust", and (most often) "fate/twilight/night/doom of the gods"—but the only place that "rein wreck" appears is in this article and copies thereof. —No-One Jones 11:22, 16 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Svensk etymologisk ordbok (Swedish Etymological Dictionary) by Elof Hellquist (available through Project Runeberg) gives the meaning as "Fate of the gods". "Ragna-" is the genitive plural of "regin" ("god" or "ruling power", same as Latin Italic textrexItalic text) while "rok" means "fate" (pl.), etymologically related to English "reach".
Sindri
This article claims Sindri is a hall. I beleve this is a missunderstanding of the völuspá verse:
Stóð fyr norðan á Niðavöllum salur úr gulli Sindra ættar
often traslated as
To the north there stood on Nidafjöll a hall of gold of Sindri's lineage
Sindri's linage referes to dwarfs, and Sindri being one of them. The verse is claiming there is a hall of gold in Niðarvellir owned by dwarfs. --Sindri 16:05, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)