The Norse myths—the stories of Thor and Loki, the Valkyries, Valhalla—have been retold again and again, from the Keary sisters' 19th-century "Heroes of Asgard" to a score of successors. Why has the novelist A.S. Byatt, the winner of the Booker Prize for "Possession" (1990), chosen to tell them once more and to center on Ragnarok, the world-ending battle pitting gods and humanity, on one side, against giants and monsters, on the other?
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