Talk:Ginnungagap

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[edit] References in popular culture

I'm moving this to the talk page - it seems to me to be a random collection of insignificant information. Haukur 13:10, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

  • In the anime series Scrapped Princess, Ginnungagap is the name for a Strategic-Class Assault Spell, that is apparently the most powerful destructive magic ever invented.
  • In the first book in the All's End series, Ginn, one of the Bluddstayns, is named after Ginnungagap. This is a reference to his odd power.
  • In the popular role-playing game, Ragnarok Online, Ginnungagap is a dagger that can cause the blind status on either the user or the enemy by low chance.
  • In Alastair Reynolds' science fiction novel Absolution Gap, the Ginnungagap Rift is a wide gash which cuts diagonally across the surface of the moon Hela. Other geographical features on the moon are also named after Norse mythology, such as the Hyrrokkin Uplands, Gullveig Range, Mount Jord, and the name Hela itself.
  • In Thomas Pynchon's novel Against the Day, Harald the Ruthless avoids the Ginnungagap at a critical moment just before his ship enters the gap (page 127).