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The Old Norse word " ragnarök " is a compound of two words.
The first is ragna, the genitive plural of regin (" gods " or " ruling powers "), derived from the reconstructed Proto-Germanic term * ragenō.
The second word, rök, has several meanings, such as " development, origin, cause, relation, fate, end.
" The traditional interpretation is that prior to the merging of / ǫ / and / ø / in Icelandic ( ca.
1200 ) the word was rök, derived from Proto-Germanic * rakō.
The word ragnarök as a whole is then usually interpreted as the " final destiny of the gods.
" In 2007, Haraldur Bernharðsson proposed that the original form of the second word in the compound is røk, leading to a Proto-Germanic reconstruction of * rekwa and opening up other semantic possibilities.
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