New Acropolis Chicago hosted the talk Ragnarok – The Wisdom of the Vikings, where participants explored Nordic mythology as a form of practical philosophy, reflecting on impermanence, courage, responsibility, and the dignity of action in uncertain times. Figures such as Odin, the god of wisdom, along with the World Tree Yggdrasil and the cycle of Ragnarok itself, were approached not as fantasy, but as expressions of timeless human questions and enduring human values.