Fimbulwinter is the harsh winter that precedes the end of the world and puts an end to all life on Earth. Fimbulwinter is three successive winters, when snow comes in from all directions, without any intervening summer. Then, there will be innumerable wars.
The event is described primarily in the
Poetic Edda. In the poem
Vafþrúðnismál,
Odin poses the question to
Vafþrúðnir as to who of mankind will survive the Fimbulwinter. Vafþrúðnir responds that
Líf and Lífþrasir will survive and that they will live in the forest of
Hoddmímis holt.
The mythology might be related to the
extreme weather events of 535–536, which resulted in a notable drop in temperature across northern Europe. There have also been several popular ideas about whether or not the particular piece of mythology has a connection to the
climate change that occurred in the Nordic countries at the end of the
Nordic Bronze Age from about 650 BC. Before that climate change, the Nordic countries were considerably warmer.
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In
Denmark,
Norway,
Sweden and other
Nordic countries, the term
fimbulvinter is still used to refer to an unusually cold and harsh winte
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