Were berserkers real?

Were berserkers real?

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berserker

do some research.

That's not how Veeky Forums works, first shitposters come in call them snow niggers, then tripfags come in and say their souls were damned to hell for being pagans

>wikipedia
>research
kek

It stands to reason there were probably a few psychotic, bloodthirsty shirtless/naked guys that plowed through a dozen or so men in a battle.

it would be like remembering some great athlete or something

>It stands to reason there were probably a few psychotic, bloodthirsty shirtless/naked guys that plowed through a dozen or so men in a battle.
No it doesn't...

Were breakfasts real?

yes
they became the germanic nations

as with all pagan cultures, the use of psychedelics was as common as was varied.

eventually someone came up with tripping hard as shit and fighting off the enemies of the tribe, and if you've ever done any psychedelic, you could see how and why it would be used. that's one possibility

there is also the hind-brain, violent, martial trance that people can enter, adrenaline, testosterone, the thrill of battle and skirting with death. this is a possibility

consider the description of Cu Culain entering his berserker frenzy. I am convinced this is a allusion to an entheogenic trip in the midst of battle

>The first warp-spasm seized Cúchulainn, and made him into a monstrous thing, hideous and shapeless, unheard of. His shanks and his joints, every knuckle and angle and organ from head to foot, shook like a tree in the flood or a reed in the stream.

>His body made a furious twist inside his skin, so that his feet and shins switched to the rear and his heels and calves switched to the front... On his head the temple-sinews stretched to the nape of his neck, each mighty, immense, measureless knob as big as the head of a month-old child... he sucked one eye so deep into his head that a wild crane couldn't probe it onto his cheek out of the depths of his skull; the other eye fell out along his cheek. His mouth weirdly distorted: his cheek peeled back from his jaws until the gullet appeared, his lungs and his liver flapped in his mouth and throat, his lower jaw struck the upper a lion-killing blow, and fiery flakes large as a ram's fleece reached his mouth from his throat... The hair of his head twisted like the tangle of a red thornbush stuck in a gap; if a royal apple tree with all its kingly fruit were shaken above him, scarce an apple would reach the ground but each would be spiked on a bristle of his hair as it stood up on his scalp with rage.

Berserker comes from a Norse word for "bear shirt", used to refer to a champion who was often the best fighter around, wearing a bearskin as a symbol of status.

Fighting in a drugged state and frenzy is a myth, though some sources refer to individuals being overcome by anger and battle lust so they break formation, hacking wildly all around and killing many, before being killed or grabbed by their allies and dragged back.

>or grabbed by their allies and dragged back.
why? i thought that the whole purpose of a viking warrior's life was to die in battle and kill as many enemies before it as they can.

youtube.com/watch?v=PBUGQkpk3RE

I know Veeky Forums is full of haters but this specific video is solid and pretty much awnsers your question. His humour is a bit cringey though.

>no beans
Disgusting

go away lindy

At least in one case, the one who went "berserk" so to speak was a jarl or something and his men had to drag him back to safety for a chill pill.

It's also not like most of them were so fanatical or religious enough to act suicidal or want to see their fellows die needlessly, I think.

>literally linking lindy

Fucker has no clue what he's talking about 80% of the time.

>that axe

Does he expect to swing 10 times at each person to kill them?

>beans
Disgusting

Jesus that's some damn fine storytelling

kill yourself

probably

At the very least, because you need to work as a cohesive unit to survive.

>shook like a tree in the flood or a reed in the stream.
those things don't shake very much

But they didn't WANT to survive. they wanted to die a honorable warriors death and enter Valhalla.

>honorable warrior
>stupid suicidal attitude
>letting the enemy kill you ASAP
Nope

Yes they were. And their love for you was like a truck.

>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berserker
They were real but they were merely a germanic version of the celtic warrios.

>implying

were they? i think we can all agree that they were wearing wolf- or bear pelts but is there any source that they were otherwise naked?

War itself by nature requires people to put themselves into situations where they'll likely die (at least historically). In that way I'd call someone going over the top of a trench towards gunfire a berserker. Or a soldier in formation while arrows fly at them.

This time he spend half the video citing someone who did his thesis in the subject.