light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter”6 Like Isaiah the prophet, Norse mythology can also teach us that honesty and that courage. In it even the gods will be defeated and Asgard destroyed. Should we therefore accept the conqueror, the enemy? No! One meaningful choice remains: to be a man to the last, to fight on the side of men and gods—and life—even if it is the losing side. To worship goodness, not power; life, not success; the right, not the inevitable.