Götterdämmerung

[ got-er-dam-uh-roong, -ruhng; German gœt-uhr-dem-uh-roong ]

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noun

German Mythology. the destruction of the gods and of all things in a final battle with evil powers: erroneous modern translation of the Old Icelandic Ragnarǫk, meaning “fate of the gods,” misunderstood as Ragnarökkr, meaning “twilight of the gods.”
(italics) See The Ring of the Nibelung.

Götterdämmerung

/ ɡœtərˈdɛmərʊŋ; ˌɡɒtəˈdɛməˌrʊŋ /

German myth the twilight of the gods; their ultimate destruction in a battle with the forces of evil Norse equivalentRagnarök

1875–80; < German, equivalent to Götter, plural of Gott God + Dämmerung twilight

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