Just as the einherjar would fight for the gods at the Ragnarök, the drowned also had their station, although a terrible one that they do not seem to have earned. As all the powers gather at the end, something will stir on the ocean floor, the greatest Viking ship ever made. Its name is Naglfar, ‘Nail-Ship’, so called because it is built from the fingernails of everyone who has ever died; the vessel thereby naturally grows larger by increments over the millennia until by the time of the Ragnarök it will be vast beyond imagining. As the roosters begin to crow, announcing the coming battle,
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