Editing Apocalypticism (section)

==={{Lang|non-latn|Bergbúa þáttr}}===
Parallels have been pointed out between a poem spoken by a ''[[jötunn]]'' found in the 13th-century [[þáttr]] ''[[Bergbúa þáttr]]'' ("the tale of the mountain dweller"). In the tale, Thórd and his servant get lost while traveling to church in winter, and so take shelter for the night within a cave. Inside the cave they hear noises, witness a pair of immense burning eyes, and then the being with burning eyes recites a poem of 12 stanzas. The poem the being recites contains references to Norse mythology (including a mention of Thor) and also prophecies (including that "mountains will tumble, the earth will move, men will be scoured by hot water and burned by fire"). Surtr's fire receives a mention in stanza 10. [[John Lindow]] says that the poem may describe "a mix of the destruction of the race of giants and of humans, as in Ragnarök" but that "many of the predictions of disruption on earth could also fit the volcanic activity that is so common in Iceland."<ref name=lindowrag>{{cite book|last=Lindow|first=John|author-link=John Lindow|date=2001|title=Norse Mythology: A Guide to Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KlT7tv3eMSwC|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|isbn=0-19-515382-0|access-date=2019-06-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190624204500/https://books.google.com/books?id=KlT7tv3eMSwC|archive-date=2019-06-24|url-status=live}}</ref>{{rp|73–74}}