Ragnarok

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Ragnarok - In Norse mythology, the definition of the end of the world.

Ragnarok begins with natural disasters

and culminates in the great battle between the gods and the giants.

EDDA, NORWAY

Say hello to your mother's new office.

What a dump.

Come on, Laurits, this is a lovely little town.

Do you remember anything from when we lived here?

-It'll be great here. - Shut the window, it's cold.

Hey. Be careful, old man.

Come on, pull around the guy.

Well, it looks like he's turning right.

Maybe he needs help.

- -Oh, for fucks sake

That's what Magne's like.

Are you okay?

Hi. Do you need help?

Do you know what a strange town this is?

Ah, let's see...

How do you start this, huh?

Ah, there we go. All right.

You okay from here? Can you manage?

Yes, yes, I'm fine.

You're a good kid.

Can we go now?

Sure.

Roll up the window.

It's gonna rain.

Yeah, right. There isn't a cloud in the sky.

The forecast promised nice weather the whole day,

EPISODE 1 NEW BOY

Do you remember grandma's old house?

Nah, not really.

Great, we get to live next to bums and drug dealers.

Maybe he can get you a job?

Magne, grab that for me, please!

EDDA - TOGETHER WE HAVE MADE EDDA A CLEANER PLACE

Yeah. Okay, good morning, everybody!

-Good morning, everybody! - Good morning.

Good morning, guys.

Okay, for starters we'll give a warm welcome to our two new students.

These are, ah, Magne and Laurits Seier.

You wanna say something about yourselves?

Yeah. Well, they're brothers, but you're not twins.

They'll be in the same class, anyway.

Yeah, I skipped a few years ahead, and Magne, well, he's good at other stuff.

I'm dyslexic.

Yep. Okay, so I think we should start by finding some space for you guys.

One of you can sit next to Gry.

Yeah, I think I could fit in here.

And Magne, you can sit in the back, next to Isolde.

Okay, then. We, um--

Let's pick up where we left off last time. We were talking about

Asatro, the religion of the Vikings.

You know what? Magne and Laurits,

I'll give you some texts that you...

It's a Tangle. Helps me concentrate.

Why is it of such particular interest

to talk about the old Norse gods?

Especially right here in Edda? Gry?

Because Edda was the last town in Norway to become Christian.

Ah, and to give up faith in the Norse gods.

Yes! That's correct.

One could say it all happened right here.

Ragnarok.

The end of the world. The final clash between the gods and the giants.

The Gods represented law and order and the giants chaos.

The balance of the world depended on the struggle between them.

But the gods were betrayed and died, and what happened to the Giants,

we don't know.

Kind of exciting, huh?

- -

That's the same! It was you who was going to...

I'm not exactly very popular.

And you won't be either, if you hang around me too much.

I was never popular.

Okay. So you're gonna kill yourself by overdosing on fat and sugar?

So you're recruiting new members for Greenpeace, huh?

Yeah, when people dump plastic

and heavy metals everywhere somebody's got to do something.

Someone's actually gotta create jobs and earn money, you know.

Yeah.

Right?

You should watch out for her.

She's a little fanatic.

That's Fjor.

He's a Jutul. He's a senior.

Most of the other girls are obsessed with him.

Hey.

Just like all the guys are crazy about his sister, Saxa,

who's completely fake, by the way.

She's pretty.

Yeah.

If you're into Barbie dolls with a silver spoon up their ass.

Oh, and that's their mother, Ran.

She's the principle and also our English teacher.

She's also pretty.

So what about you?

You do anything other than fight plastics, or?

I talk about the environment on YouTube. But, hey, check it out yourself.

Is Snus good for the environment?

You can't save the whole world.

And I am only killing myself.

I paraglide too, that's kind of the same.

Give it to me, can I have some?

EDDA SECONDARY SCHOOL

Argh! Fuck!

What's wrong?

I think someone sent me a message. It's not the first time.

Maybe if I try to--

Just forget it. You can't fix it.

- -

Today I fixed a wheel with my bare hands.

And I can see much better.

I don't know what's going on.

AUTHORITY

Our end-of-term paper is going to be about...

you!

Ahm, ah...

Me...

Me...

He's dyslexic!

Individuality and authority.

It's a group assignment.

I've assigned you into groups...

So, are those prescription or just fakes?

...so we have Leni, Oscar...

If you don't need them, there's no point in wearing glasses.

...and Ida. You're together. Isolde, Gry and you.

New kid. You're together.

So, new kid.

You are going to discuss Norwegian democracy.

Uhm,

okay, we could start with the definition of democracy in ancient Greece,

and tie it in with present-day Norway.

Hm!

Or, we could write about how politicians believe that they're in charge,

while in reality, it's the multinational corporations

and chains that control everything.

And who do you think produces that stuff?

You support them yourself.

Next time I'll ask for a group without any addicts.

Good luck with that. Half the school's on happy-pills.

Hm.

How about this? Something about the community and local industry?

That's actually not bad.

"The pristine nature is Edda's great pride."

It's fucking crazy.

What do you mean?

That society and the industry try to sell us a reality that isn't real.

And they're the ones in power.

Then you write a paragraph from that perspective for next class

and we'll take a look.

Hi, Laurits.

Hi.

Let's go up here.

Way to go. Does mommy pick you up from school every day?

Thank you for your email, Turid.

And I'd like to welcome you to our school, Magne.

Yes, I thought it would be nice to have a quick meeting.

Yes.

Magne does have some concentration problems,

and he's not very academically inclined.

Magne lost his father when he was six years old,

right before we moved away from Edda--

Yes, I remember it well.

It was really tragic.

That might have something to do with it.

He also has a pretty rash temper and he can be a little violent.

Especially in situations where he feels he's being treated unfairly.

Okay. And has this just started recently? Or...

He's always been interested in what's right and wrong...

I think we should close the window.

Isn't a bit of fresh air nice?

We've had some incidents throughout the years, right Magne?

Which didn't end well.

Both in kindergarten and in school, actually,

where things were broken and...

Well, it's not unusual for boys of Magne's age

to struggle with various issues.