Editing Ragnarök (section)

====''Gylfaginning'' chapters 26 and 34====
[[File:Beginn des Weltunterganges.jpg|thumb|upright|Loki breaks free at the onset of {{Lang|non|Ragnarök}} (by Ernst H. Walther, 1897)]]

In the ''Prose Edda'' book ''[[Gylfaginning]]'', various references are made to {{Lang|non|Ragnarök}}. {{Lang|non|Ragnarök}} is first mentioned in chapter 26, where the throned figure of [[High, Just-As-High, and Third|High]], king of the hall, tells [[Gylfi|Gangleri]] (King [[Gylfi]] in disguise) some basic information about the goddess [[Iðunn]], including that her apples will keep the gods young until {{Lang|non|Ragnarök}}.{{sfn|Byock|2005|p=36}}

In chapter 34, High describes the binding of the wolf Fenrir by the gods, causing the god [[Týr]] to lose his right hand, and that Fenrir remains there until {{Lang|non|Ragnarök}}. Gangleri asks High why, since the gods could only expect destruction from Fenrir, they did not simply kill Fenrir once he was bound. High responds that "the gods hold their sacred places and sanctuaries in such respect that they chose not to defile them with the wolf's blood, even though the prophecies foretold that he would be the death of Odin."{{sfn|Byock|2005|p=42}}

As a consequence of his role in the death of the god Baldr, Loki (described as father of Fenrir) is bound on top of three stones with the internal organs of his son [[Narfi (son of Loki)|Narfi]] (which are turned into iron) in three places. There, [[snake venom|venom]] drops onto his face periodically from a snake placed by the {{lang|non|jötunn}} [[Skaði]]. Loki's wife [[Sigyn]] collects the venom into a bucket, but whenever she leaves to empty it, the drops reach Loki's face, and the pain he experiences causes convulsions, resulting in [[earthquake]]s. Loki is further described as being bound this way until the onset of {{Lang|non|Ragnarök}}.{{sfn|Byock|2005|p=70}}