So the media is reporting that Ragnarok, the Viking apocalypse, is due to happen today. Another day, another culturally appropriated doomsday scenario. It's important to note that the people who announced this to the media, the Jorvik Viking Centre in the UK, are totes kidding. Unlike the 2012 Mayan apocalypse which fell on a legitimate date on the Mayan calendar (although the date may not be accurate, and on top of that, the Mayans never predicted an apocalypse) Ragnarok has no set date but is determined through prophetic events, much like the Christian apocalypse. And the date that the Viking Centre has predicted for Ragnarok