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gulping down fiery coals; he snatched live embers in his mouth and let them pass down into his entrails; he rushed through the perils of crackling fires; and at last, when he had raved through every sort of madness, he turned his sword with raging hand against the hearts of six of his champions. It is doubtful whether this madness came from thirst for battle or natural ferocity. Then with the remaining band of his champions he attacked Halfdan, who crushed him with a hammer of wondrous size, so that he lost both victory and life; paying the penalty both to Halfdan, whom he had challenged, and to the kings whose offspring he had violently ravished...
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If a soldier survives the berserk state, it imparts emotional deadness and vulnerability to explosive rage to his psychology and permanent hyperarousal to his physiology — hallmarks of post-traumatic stress disorder in combat veterans. My clinical experience with Vietnam combat veterans prompts me to
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In battle, the berserkers were subject to fits of frenzy. They would howl like wild beasts, foam at the mouth, and gnaw the rims of their shields. According to belief, during these fits, they were immune to steel and fire, and made great havoc in the ranks of the enemy. When this fever abated, they
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Emphasis has been placed on the frenzied nature of the berserkers, hence the modern sense of the word "berserk". However, the sources describe several other characteristics that have been ignored or neglected by modern commentators. Snorri's assertion that "neither fire nor iron told upon them" is
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These men asked Halfdan to attack Hardbeen and his champions man by man; and he not only promised to fight, but assured himself the victory with most confident words. When Hardbeen heard this, a demoniacal frenzy suddenly took him; he furiously bit and devoured the edges of his shield; he kept
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One theory of the berserkers suggests that the physical manifestations of the berserker alongside their rage was a form of self-induced hysteria. Initiated before battle through a ritualistic performance meant for effect, which included actions such as shield-biting and animalistic howling.
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and sword as distinguishing features, assumed to be a berserker with a wolf pelt: "a wolf-skinned warrior with the apparently one-eyed dancer in the bird-horned helm, which is generally interpreted as showing a scene indicative of a relationship between berserkgang ... and the god Odin".
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to see King Harald about his brother Thorolf's murder are described as "the hardest of men, with a touch of the uncanny about a number of them ... they built and shaped more like trolls than human beings." This has sometimes been interpreted as the band of men being
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The scenes show his Roman soldiers plus auxiliaries and allies from Rome's border regions, including tribal warriors from both sides of the Rhine. There are warriors depicted as barefoot, bare-chested, bearing weapons and helmets that are associated with the
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tells of a challenge to single-combat that was postponed by a berserker until three days after Yule. The bodies of dead berserkers were laid out in bearskins prior to their funeral rites. The bear-warrior symbolism survives to this day in the form of the
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has been depicted with a berserker rage like state called "Warrior's Madness" which enhances his strength, speed, durability and stamina for months though Thor has very little control in this state. A 'Berserker staff' is featured in the Marvel TV show
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Scene 36 on the column shows some of these warriors standing together, with some wearing bearhoods and some wearing wolfhoods. Nowhere else in history are Germanic bear-warriors and wolf-warriors recorded fighting together until 872 AD, with
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Wolf warriors appear among the legends of the Indo-Europeans, Turks, Mongols, and Native American cultures. The Germanic wolf-warriors have left their trace through shields and standards that were captured by the Romans and displayed in the
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are also similar to the symptoms ascribed to the berserker state, which suggest it may have been used to generate their warlike mood. Other explanations for the berserker's madness that have been put forward include self-induced
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where a post-massacre remnant society of humans offers armed resistance to an alien invasion. A small faction of mercenary fighters within the human cohort that is at the center of the series' action is known as The
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villages went to war in unison, the berserkers often wore special clothing, for instance furs of a wolf or bear, to indicate that this person was a berserker, and would not be able to tell friend from foe when in
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reiterated time after time. The sources frequently state that neither edged weapons nor fire affected the berserks, although they were not immune to clubs or other blunt instruments. For example:
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The helm-plate press from Torslunda depicts a scene of a one-eyed warrior with bird-horned helm, assumed to be Odin, next to a wolf-headed warrior armed with a
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and were mad as hounds or wolves, bit their shields...they slew men, but neither fire nor iron had effect upon them. This is called 'going berserk'."
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and are consistently referred to in the sagas as a group of berserkers, always presented as the elite following of the first Norwegian king
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on the lands of the farm No 5 Björnhovda in Torslunda parish, Öland, Sweden, one of them showing what appears to be a berserker ritual.
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men were found during construction work in the immediate vicinity of the St. Gallus Church in the Gutenstein district of the city of
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It is proposed by some authors that the northern warrior tradition originated from hunting magic. Three main animal
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Some scholars propose that certain examples of berserker rage had been induced voluntarily by the consumption of
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Vandle helmet with bronze plates depicting wild Boar warriors, the Svinfylking 8th Century CE. Valsgarde, Sweden
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Merkelbach, Rebecca. 2018. Eigi í mannligu eðli: Shape, Monstrosity and Berserkism in the Sagas of Icelanders.
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Beck, H. 1965 Das Ebersignum im Germanischen. Ein Beitrag zur germanischen TierSymbolik. Berlin: W. de Gruyter.
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It is proposed by some authors that the berserkers drew their power from the bear and were devoted to the
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place the berserk state at the heart of their most severe psychological and psychophysiological injuries.
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interpreted the meaning as "bare-shirt", that is to say that the warriors went into battle without
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Nioradze, Georg. "Der Schamanismus bei den sibirischen Völkern", Strecker und Schröder, 1925.
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Danielli, M, "Initiation Ceremonial from Norse Literature", Folk-Lore, v56, 1945 pp. 229–45.
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and the immunity to edged weapons are reminiscent of tricks popularly ascribed to
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In 1639 and 1734 respectively, two vastly decorated horns made of sheet gold, the
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Ancient Germanic Warriors: Warrior Styles from Trajan's Column to Icelandic Sagas
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It has been suggested that the berserkers' behavior inspired the legend of the
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Other animal headed figures have been found, such as an antlered figure on the
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Howard, Fabing (November 1956). "On Going Berserk: A Neurochemical Inquiry".
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Right image: Speculative ceremonial bearskin headdress of a modern berserker
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makes an explicit connection between the berserker rage of soldiers and the
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Das Ebersignum im Germanischen. Ein Beitrag zur germanischen Tiersymbolik
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Fabing, Howard D. (1956). "On Going Berserk: A Neurochemical Inquiry".
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Kovářová, L. (2011). "The Swine in Old Nordic Religion and Worldview".
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can transfigure into a massive bear, dangerous to both friend and foe.
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Prudence Jones & Nigel Pennick (1997). "Late Germanic Religion".
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Jakobsson, Ármann (2011). "Beast and man: Realism and the occult in
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The Viking way : religion and war in late Iron Age Scandinavia
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features an enemy known as the Locust. Within the Locust caste are
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An animal headed warrior and a one eyed character on one of the
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The earliest surviving reference to the term "berserker" is in
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out of a Festschrift to Oscar Monteliusvägen published in 1903
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and religious practice, particularly in association with the
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draws a parallel between berserkers and the mention by the
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Red with blood are their spears when they come to fight.
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were weak and tame. Accounts can be found in the sagas.
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Harmondsworth (Penguin). p.  1573:"Helmets and swords in Beowulf" by 1394:"Icelandic Etymological Dictionary" 1094:Dance" performed by members of his 191: 150:The Old Norse form of the word was 24: 4713:Västergötland Runic Inscription 40 4678:Södermanland Runic Inscription 333 4673:Södermanland Runic Inscription 174 4042:Aud the Deep-Minded (Ketilsdóttir) 2787:from the original on 23 April 2022 2755:from the original on 21 March 2023 2729:from the original on 20 March 2023 2640:from the original on 24 April 2022 2608:from the original on 21 March 2023 2557:from the original on 12 April 2021 2491:War and Violence in Ancient Greece 2341: 2294: 2101:. New York: Norroena Society. 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Irving Hallowell (1925). 1113:This fury, which was called 1060:Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv 287:In the spring of 1870, four 145: 7: 5857:Christianization of Iceland 4558:Danish Runic Inscription 66 4062:Birka female Viking warrior 3754:Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu 3038: 2885:Speidel, Michael P (2004), 1340: 1049: 659:are sometimes described as 276:Migration Period depictions 209: 10: 5972: 4588:Gunnar's bridge runestones 3934:Viking Age arms and armour 3789:Battle of Strangford Lough 3529:Battle of Brentford (1016) 1699:Sturluson, Snorri (1976). 1656:National Museum of Denmark 867:The "tasters of blood" (a 737:In Norse poetry, the word 720:Right image: Warrior with 709:Left image: Warriors with 414:Berserkers – bear warriors 399:An antlered figure on the 32:Berserker (disambiguation) 29: 5896:Animal festival or ritual 5865: 5827: 5108: 5070: 4860: 4814: 4797: 4744:Viking Ship Museum (Oslo) 4731: 4718:Västra Nöbbelöv Runestone 4540: 4407:Sigvaldi Strut-Haraldsson 4242:Hrafna-Flóki Vilgerðarson 4014: 3902: 3779:Battle of Stamford Bridge 3466: 3361: 3291: 3253: 3242: 3046: 2408:10.1016/j.jep.2019.112151 2320:10.1016/j.jep.2019.112151 2043:Chronicles of the Vikings 2008:Blaney, Benjamin (1972). 1469:A History of Pagan Europe 1419:Blaney, Benjamin (1972). 1269:Assassin's Creed Valhalla 1084:(CE 905–959) in his book 850:They form a closed group. 846:They bear bloody shields. 534:Ulfheðnar – wolf warriors 5095:North Germanic languages 5080:Germanic parent language 4252:Ingvar the Far-Travelled 4157:Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir 3991:Raid Warfare and Tactics 3834:Battle of Trans-la-Forêt 3804:Battle of Tara (Ireland) 3774:Battle of Stamford (918) 3769:Battle of Stamford (894) 3674:Battle of Lüneburg Heath 3489:Battle of Anglesey Sound 2858:Journal of World History 2815:. 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Entertainment Weekly. 2551:Encyclopaedia Britannica 2342:S., Price, Neil (2002). 2266:Rowbottom, Mike (2013). 2134:Ellis-Davidson, Hilda R. 1957:eprints.nottingham.ac.uk 1860:Grundy, Stephan (1998). 1260:The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 1058:A fresco in the 11th c. 863:Ulfheðnar – wolf warrior 613:), are mentioned in the 490:To "go berserk" was to " 408: 282:Golden Horns of Gallehus 5956:Wolves in human culture 5100:West Germanic languages 5090:East Germanic languages 5085:Proto-Germanic language 4905:Proto-Germanic folklore 4842:Romano-Germanic culture 4472:Thorfinn Torf-Einarsson 4417:Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye 4147:Godfrid, Duke of Frisia 3874:Siege of Chartres (911) 3724:Battle of Reading (871) 3679:Battle of Lyrskov Heath 3669:Battle of London Bridge 3639:Battle of Hingston Down 2996:Encyclopædia Britannica 2576:Atherton, Mark (2012). 2469:10.1163/187633105x00213 2248:Wernick, Robert (1979) 1501:American Anthropologist 167: 158: 152: 129: 106:guiding a berserker or 36:Zerker (disambiguation) 5901:Bears in human culture 4628:Norra Härene Runestone 4553:Baltic area runestones 4067:Bjørn (floruit 856–58) 3854:Raids in the Rhineland 3664:Battle of Leuven (891) 3654:Battle of Islandbridge 3649:Battle of Hjörungavágr 3549:Battle of Cathair Cuan 3004:Berserkers-wolf-people 2439:The Viking Achievement 1303:Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 1230: 1200: 1171:, among other causes. 1119: 1067: 939: 898: 864: 857: 571:Right image: Possible 291:cast-bronze dies, the 228: 4910:Anglo-Saxon mythology 4800:Ethnolinguistic group 4598:Hakon Jarl runestones 4497:Tryggvi the Pretender 4402:Snæfrithr Svásadottir 4337:Ohthere of Hålogaland 4282:Ketil Trout (Iceland) 4102:Eohric of East Anglia 4001:Svinfylking Formation 3809:Battle of Tarbat Ness 3619:Battle of Fýrisvellir 3484:First Battle of Alton 2979:(Viking Answer Lady) 2889:, London: Routledge, 2108:5 August 2017 at the 1750:10.1353/scd.2011.0013 1637:29 March 2017 at the 1328:, the main character 1217: 1195: 1144:, massive amounts of 1111: 1057: 972:outlawed berserkers. 934: 886: 862: 835: 796:the Hall-Challenging 772:as a ritual costume. 223: 176:made out of a bear's 47:Berserker / Ulfheðinn 4708:Varangian runestones 4623:Lingsberg Runestones 4603:Hällestad Runestones 4487:Thorolf Kveldulfsson 4447:Styrbjörn the Strong 4382:Rognvald Eysteinsson 4362:Ragnhild Eriksdotter 4127:Freydís Eiríksdóttir 4097:Egill Skallagrímsson 3844:Burning of Luimneach 3819:Battle of Tettenhall 3784:Battle of Stiklestad 3719:Battle of Rastarkalv 3629:Battle of Hafrsfjord 3594:Battle of Englefield 3554:Battle of Chippenham 3544:Battle of Buttington 3539:Battle of Brunanburh 3534:Battle of Brissarthe 2636:. 16 November 2020. 2040:Page, R. 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