How did berserkergang happen?

They apparently absolutely fucking lost it, that's got to be more than that.

Have you ever had a panic attack?

As cool as it sounds it was probably awkward as fuck to watch

Like bearmode manlets going sperg rage at each other and swinging wildly

They used them as shock troops in the king's armies, so they probably had those assholes just climb all over the enemy's shields and just die while sperging.

fucking Varg

You just work yourself into a killing rage.

Once you've been there once, you can do it again. And, big fucking shock, rapid movements of large muscle groups and loud shouting will, in fact, cause an adrenaline rush to help out with this. Do does hitting things and being in pain.

Sound familiar?

like...jihadists?

holy shit is varg
:)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cú_Chulainn
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
>Viking
>Germanic
>Celtic
>Indo-European
>Pagan

Vikings were leftover Germanic Pagans following old European Celtic practices.

>The shamanism of the pre-Christian Norse and other Germanic peoples took several different forms. Among the most common of these forms, especially for men, was the attainment and use of an ecstatic battle-fury closely linked to a particular totem animal, usually a bear or a wolf, and often occurring within the context of certain formal, initiatory military groups.

>During the Viking Age, these “warrior-shamans” typically fell into two groups: the berserkers (Old Norse berserkir, “bear-shirts”) and úlfheðnar (pronounced “oolv-HETH-nahr” with a hard “th” as in “the;” Old Norse for “wolf-hides”). These groups were a late development of the earlier Germanic warband,[1] and shared much in common with the warlike shamanism of other circumpolar peoples.[2]

norse-mythology.org/gods-and-creatures/others/berserkers-and-other-shamanic-warriors/

But Cuhullin, or at least his Warp Spasms, was almost certainly fake while Berserkers were a real thing.

I don't see where this is a Celtic practice. When was Berserkergang used outside of North Germanic peoples?

>Cúchulainn is fictional
So? Ancient mythology being fictional or not is not that relevant to discussing the beliefs and culture of people living thousands of years ago.
The ancient celts and the ancient norse clearly had remarkably similar beliefs regarding heroic warriors who displayed great rage and supernatural strenght. That they both believed in a bunch of hooey dosen't change that.
>berserkers were a real thing
That claim is certainly up for discussion.
The norse would also attribute a bunch of religious supernatural stuff to berserkergang.
Snorre Sturlason described them as "strong as bears or wild oxen, and killed people at a blow, but neither fire nor iron told upon them." Few today believe warriors like that actually existed.

>great hot-headedness

a brief history of berserkers:
>dude do you dare to me to rush these guys naked?
>yeah bro that would be berserk af

>shivering, chattering of the teeth, and chill in the body, and then the face swelled and changed its colour

literally just an acute adrenal response.

Celts in fact went "berserk" way, way harder than the Norse did, entire armies would strip naked and hellcharge the enemy formation.

They laughed at death because they were Indo-European stock, and like their ancestors believed in reincarnation and a kind of karmic system derived from courage.

licked frogs

They were the autists of their day. Today's autistic rages by autists are only a shade of what they once were.

They painted themselves blue and charged like madmen but did they have the same religious connotations? Did they have the days of feebleness afterwards that was spoken of?

Well Celtics and Germanics having similarities may be attributed to the simple Indo-European commonality, since what you mentioned was a theme seen in Italic, Iranic, Slavic, and Hellenic culture too.

And Berserkers were definitely a thing, they were well documented and absolutely employed, but of course with some liberty taken what with their spells and shit.

More like Cthulhu-ainn? Eh? I'm right or what? Eh? Ah Ah!