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Categories: Animal festival or ritual, Norse paganism, Stock characters, Bears in religion, Wolves in folklore, religion and mythology

berserker berserk 'Serker 'Zerker Battle-rage

One of the ancient Norse warriors legendary for working themselves into a frenzy before a battle and fighting with reckless savagery and insane fury WordNet 3.0

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One of the ancient Norse warriors legendary for working themselves into a frenzy before a battle and fighting with reckless savagery and insane fury WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

In the Old Norse written corpus, berserkers were those who were said to have fought in a trance-like fury, a characteristic which later gave rise to the modern English word berserk. Wikipedia

Warriors who purportedly fought in a trance-like fury Wikidata

A crazed Norse warrior who fought in a frenzy; a berserker. Wiktionary

A crazed Norse warrior who fought in a frenzy. Wiktionary (translation)

A berserk (a crazed Norse warrior who fought in a frenzy). Wiktionary

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