Norse Ragnarok included rebirth and survivors after the destruction

Evidence

But the seeress did not end in darkness. After the fire and the flood, she sang, the earth would rise again, green and new, out of the sea. A few gods would survive, and two human beings, a man and a woman, would emerge from the shelter of the World Tree where they had hidden, to begin the world anew. Baldur the beautiful would return from the dead. So even the Norse vision of the end was also a vision of renewal: that after the worst, after even the gods have fallen, life rises green again, and the world begins once more. — , A Year of World Stories, 13524

Categorization

• XREF: Corrects the common simplification that Ragnarok is purely doom; parallels Christian Revelation’s renewal and ecological cycles.