Editing Apocalypticism (section)

===Modern influences===
In late 2013 and early 2014, English-language media outlets widely reported that Ragnarök was foretold to occur on 22 February 2014.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Richards |first1=Chris |title=Will the world END next week? Viking apocalypse 'Ragnarok' due to arrive on February 22 |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/viking-apocalypse-2014-ragnarok-due-3153959 |publisher=Daily Mirror |date=17 February 2014 |access-date=3 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190602021113/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/viking-apocalypse-2014-ragnarok-due-3153959 |archive-date=2 June 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> Apparently patterned after the [[2012 phenomenon]], the claim was at times attributed to a "Viking Calendar". No such calendar is known to have existed, and the source was a "prediction" made to media outlets by the [[Jorvik Viking Centre]] in [[York]], England, intended to draw attention to an event that the institution was to hold on that date. The Jorvik Viking Centre was criticized for misleading the public to promote the event. In a 2014 article on the claims, philologist Joseph S. Hopkins perceives the media response as an example of a broad revival of interest in the Viking Age and ancient Germanic topics.<ref name=hopkinsrag>{{cite journal |last=Hopkins |first=Joseph S. |year=2014 |url=https://www.academia.edu/7751817 |format=PDF |title=The 'Viking Apocalypse' of 22nd February 2014: An Analysis of the Jorvik Viking Center's ''Ragnarök'' and Its Media Reception |journal=RMN Newsletter |volume=8 |publisher=University of Helsinki |pages=7–12 |issn=2324-0636 |access-date=1 March 2022}}</ref>