Crossword clues for gotterdammerung
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gotterdammerung \Got`ter*dam"mer*ung\, Gotterdammerung \G["o]t`ter*d["a]m"mer*ung\n. [G., lit. Twilight of the Gods; a modern mistranslation of the Old Icelandic Ragnarok, meaning, fate of the gods. --RHUD] (German mythology)
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A myth about the ultimate destruction of the gods in a battle with evil.
Syn: Ragnarok, Twilight of the Gods.
An opera by Richard Wagner.
Ragnarok \Rag"na*rok"\ (r[.a]"n[.a]*r[o^]k"), Ragnarok \Rag"na*r["o]k"\ (r[.a]"n[.a]*r[^u]k"), n. [Icel., fr. regin, r["o]gn, gods + r["o]k reason, origin, history; confused with ragna-r["o]kr the twilight of the gods.] (Norse Myth.) The so-called ``Twilight of the Gods'' (called in German G["o]tterd["a]mmerung), the final destruction of the world in the great conflict between the [AE]sir (gods) on the one hand, and on the other, the giants and the powers of Hel under the leadership of Loki (who is escaped from bondage).
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
from German Götterdämmerung, literally "twilight of the gods," used by Wagner as the title of the last opera in the Ring cycle; used in English from 1909 in the figurative sense of "complete overthrow" of something.
Wikipedia
(; Twilight of the Gods), WWV 86D, is the last in Richard Wagner's cycle of four music dramas titled Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung, or The Ring for short). It received its premiere at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus on 17 August 1876, as part of the first complete performance of the Ring.
The title is a translation into German of the Old Norse phrase Ragnarök, which in Norse mythology refers to a prophesied war among various beings and gods that ultimately results in the burning, immersion in water, and renewal of the world. However, as with the rest of the Ring, Wagner's account diverges significantly from his Old Norse sources.
GötterDÄmmerung - Tribut an die beste Band der Welt (Twilight of the Gods - Tribute album to "the best band in the world" - "DÄ" stand for D Ärzte) is a tribute album of Die Ärzte songs.
Götterdämmerung ( German for Twilight of the Gods) is the seventh album by the German industrial metal band Megaherz. It was released on 20 January 2012. It is the first album by this band to feature Christoph Klinke on guitars.
Usage examples of "gotterdammerung".
Now it is probable that some of us will have been so talked by the more superstitious Bayreuth pilgrims into regarding Die Gotterdammerung as the mighty climax to a mighty epic, more Wagnerian than all the other three sections put together, as not to dare notice this startling atavism, especially if we find the trio-conjurations more exhilarating than the metaphysical discourses of Wotan in the three true music dramas of The Ring.
Die Gotterdammerung, though the last of The Ring dramas in order of performance, was the first in order of conception and was indeed the root from which all the others sprang.