According to some aficionados of Norse mythology, today is predicted to be the day of Ragnarök, the epic final battle ‘twixt good and evil.

I’m scheduling this post for 6:00 p.m. Central Standard Time, Saturday, February 22, 2014. In Sweden right now, it’s already Sunday the 23rd. If Scandinavia is still a cold, dark place with mostly blonde people enjoying a high standard of living and eating lots of mackerel—as opposed to the scene of an Æsir vs. Jötnar battle royale—then we can probably all breathe easy. We have more to fear from coal slurry than the trickster god Loki.

Keep an eye out for giant serpents, though, just in case…

I mean, Harold Camping and all those people who misinterpreted the Mayans were wrong, but maybe third time’s a charm?

Photo credit: Emil Doepler [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.