Berserkers

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Name (Hebrew)
ברסרקרים
Name (Latin)
Berserkers
Name (Arabic)
البرسركيون
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Wikidata: Q335303
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In the Old Norse written corpus, berserkers (Old Norse: berserkir) were those who were said to have fought in a trance-like fury, a characteristic which later gave rise to the modern English adjective berserk 'furiously violent or out of control'. Berserkers are attested to in numerous Old Norse sources.

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