lst Edition – lst Printing – by Ignatius L Donnelly (a Minnesota Congressman) – populist writer, and amateur scientist. He is known primarily now for his fringe theories concerning Atlantis, Catastrophism, and Shakespearean authorship, which many modern historians consider to be pseudoscience and pseudohistory. Ragnarok in Norse mythology means “fate of the gods”- brown cloth with bright gilt – slightly loose cover board – good condition. OK, give the guy a break…..he was a congressman after all! You might fall under his spell of doom, or it will amuse the hell out of you….- Dona