Were berserkers real? How did they do it? I want to make my ancestors proud

Were berserkers real? How did they do it? I want to make my ancestors proud.

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Get PTSD so badly that you lose your sense of fear and become prone to fits of rage

Where can i get this PTSD?

Smoke allotta weed lmao and play cawladooty

Become obese, the rest will be clear from there

Does muscle mass count?

yes your fat counts as muscle mass

I have only little fat. I have been lifting iron for years to be like my warrior ancestors. Yet i have not managed to berserkergång.

lindy has a lot of detail
youtube.com/watch?v=PBUGQkpk3RE

Go away Lindy.

Firing an AR-15

A combination of mushrooms, being a fucking gnarly tank for whom battle is like a trip to the shops and a lot of shamanic stuff.

Also, The Reach is legit Nord clay!

>t. Thalmor sleeper agent

'sup thalmor sleeper agent

>mushrooms

this is a meme

beserkergang was intentionally induced adrenaline release

They were a meme that spooked levies
Aside from that absolutely useless

I know that berserkers had lots of adrenaline, I heard that before a raid they were known to bite their shields. If they were too rowdy I also heard sometimes they were sent to wrestle logs. So adrenaline is a factor

You got my attention. How do I unlock berserkergang mode?

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this, Forsworn

No berserker lived long enough to have children. This is why contemporary Scandinavians are cucks.

are you this fucking guy op

I understood that reference.

It's a meme that they took psilocybin, for sure. Anyone who's done them would know this instantly. Muscaria, however, causes dissociation, and is a completely different beast that potentially accounts for some of the stories told about berserkers.

I personally am a fan of the most mundane explanation: They were simply elite fighters who wore furs to signify that status and acted as champions.

Cuck meme really got to you, huh. It is evident you don't really know any Swedes and fall flat for Veeky Forums memes.

Post your body, then.

>Like my European blood calls to me
WE

>Not being a cuck
It's the thinking man's fetish.

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Basically mythology centered on being a really pissed off guy.

It's a pretty common theme of a lot of ancient northern European peoples where heroes go into a fit of blind rage where pain means very little.

The Tyrfing myth involved a berserker cutting off a Visigoth king's hand and killing him with his own magic sword.

Cu Chulainn, an Irish hero is described as undergoing Warpspasms which are basically the same pattern of behavior as the berserker rage.

Beowulf is probably a little bit of a berserker reference, since his character is based in large parts on that of bears.

The mushrooms thing is probably horseshit, but I wouldn't rule out getting very very very shitfaced drunk.

Can anyone cite a source for them, that isn't a saga that also features dragons and trolls and pixies?

lingybeige says they dont exist because there is no acual record of them anywhere before video games, and i believe him

>The mushrooms thing is probably horseshit, but I wouldn't rule out getting very very very shitfaced drunk.

>mushrooms proven to heighten senses

>alcohol proven to destroy coordination

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>mushrrom ting prolly booshit do ha ha

If you've ever been in a fist fight you kinda lose all sense of self and you get this hyper focus. I'd imagine that would be even moreso the case in a life or death scenario this would be even moreso the case.

it is bullshit, it does nothing to cause people to go berserk or increase strenght or go into fits of murderous rage, at best it would make them trip

berserkers were just a case of ritualised ptsd levels of rage mixed with some alchohol and selfsugestion, it realy works, i witnessed it, blind rage getting gradualy worked up to homicidal levels of agression in people who have been repeatedly exposed to violent life and death situations, such as war, at times this takes 'preparation' like mentaly getting oneself in that space trough reminding oneself of shit and reliving the memories, or sometimes people just flip like someone shifted gears on a machine

berserkers just worked this into a cultural thing, with a ritual of sorts and so on

its quite likely they didnt realy begin to do this as a means to an end in itself as much as to cope and manage the allready existing problem, turn a glitch into a feature

Pretty much this. Hence why you get stuff like shield biting/gnawing, howling etc. It's a way to get psyched up into a rage and increase your adrenaline.
Although I don't think alcohol, if it was used for this reason, wouldn't include more than a drink or two, otherwise the intoxication would interfere too much with a berserker's ability too fight.

Shut the fuck up you retarded fucking whoreson.

The only thing you could do on mushrooms is beat the fuck out of your micropenis to gay porn like the motherhating faggot you are.

Literally any drunk at any bar at any period in time could kick your ass because you would let them in hopes that he'd rape your faggot hole after.

>muh magic mushrooms super warrior lol

Berserkers don't even show enough competence in battle to warrant your fucking braindead dey wuz invancablez an shiet nonsense.

Go back to fucking your own ass with an office stapler you lazy fucking wannabe historian.

Alcohol tolerance is most likely a factor in the intake amount, the fact that they seemingly don't react to cuts and burns I find to be the strongest suggestion that in this way their senses were dulled, because otherwise when they're felled with killing blows or if someone smashed their heads in with maces or clubs they died like any other.

Dulling of senses (although I've read that it heightens your perception) and pain tolerance are a side effect of adrenaline. Pretty normal stuff really.
In fact, the whole berserk rage is very consistent with the effects of adrenaline rush. So it would make sense that berserkers were people that trained to induce it on themselves at will.

Karl was a christian pussy. I worship the ancient gods of blood, war and chaos.

>user asks about berzerkers
>Says he want to do his ancestors proud
>Day after there's a shooting in Florida

Anyone else that see this?

which ones were those?

Do Canadians with hispanic names think they're vikings?

>Kuntzman

Tor and Oden.

Berserk comes a pair old norse words "ber", meaning bare, and "serk" meaning torso/upper body. A berserker was one who fought bare shirted, having taken his armor off. A few kings or jarls are said to have done this in order to inspire bravery and courage. In a few other contexts, a berserker has referred to a fighter that engages an opponent in single combat.

But what you're probably thinking about are the dudes who wore bear and wolf pelts and fighting with a battle frenzy. All warrior cultures have exhibited such behaviors.

Oden and Tyr i think he meant.

your ancestors cannot feel pride or anything else for that matter

>gods of human protection/thunder and knowledge/magic
you sound like you'd be more at home with giants and ettins. looks like you'll be eating thunder hammer m8

Tiw was more about law than war iirc

I read that berserker/bärsärk came from bear+särk, meaning that they wore bear skins, to fight with the same ferocity as a bear.

Tor isn't a god of war mate, just the god of thunder, and he wasn't really worshipped or sacrificed to.

You pussy fag nerd know nothing about my gods.

bare shirted is the right translation

He probably mean Tyr

Oden is a god of war though. Or so we think. Norse gods weren't really gods *of* something the same way Roman and Greek gods. Oden is describes as the god of (among other things) fate, knowledge, war, strategy, sex and hnefatafl (basically chess).

>and hnefatafl (basically chess).
well that's kinda cool

Snorre Sturlasson writes that he was mostly worshipped by warriors.

There is no conclusive consensus on what the right translation is. It could be either or it could be both for all we know.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berserker

Under etymology, it says that it's disputed.

oh but i do

im a level 10 Germanicaboo, you know nothing

that's probably because he was law and heroic glory

that's not exactly a full blown god-of-war just a concept of the noble champion

Woden was a god associated with knowledge iirc, what with his eye in the well. males sense that he might be a war god in the sense that it involved preparation and strategy, sort of like Minerva.

i like the look of an actual berserker, probably my favorite barbar

>Tor and Oden
>gods of blood, war and chaos.

are you 15? Tor and Odin are an infinite amount more interesting than that.

That shroom thing is bullshit. Anyone who thinks this should try some and tell me if you feel like you could go berserk.

Thor was the sky god, and like Zeus the main god. Odin may have been the all-father, but Thor was definitely the most popular god amongst Danes and Swedes, not sure about Norway. Most worship and sacrifice went towards him, at least if we're going to trust the jewish sources we have.

Lindy's video on "berserkers" really is not that good. As far as i know, berserk (berserkergang) is a state of mind, and not a unit.

Be autistic and eat a shiton of shrooms then go into super tard rage

That's actually the translation with the least support among historians dog

Naaah, why would they?

The Norse word "ber" means berries. "Bär" means bear. The naked berserker meme was a roman invention

Bärsärk means bear shirt. Särk is a specific type of clothing, and the word is still used in Scandinavian languages. If there's any doubt, another type of berserkers were ulvhedin or ulfhednar, literally "wolf pelts"

Odin, Thor and Tyr were all three gods of war
Thor was all about the actual fighting while Tyr was for oaths, law and rituals of war, not sure how Odin specialized but he kinda just took over from Tyr as the big honcho god anyway

Also, (((berserkers))) were attested among the lapps too, known as "intomies"

Look up Wim Hoffman

Varg has much better videos on berserkers.

youtube.com/watch?v=pSxWFNav8rk

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People like us are naturally more violent, way more violent.
Simply because the environment, our surroundings dictate we need to be like this for survival, it's cold and harsh.
Our cousins in warmer parts of the world couldn't adapt here because you can't pluck fruit from the tree's or hunt that well during winter so you'd die.
Where as they are at peace, have a warm culture which reflects in everything, colors in their clothing, music, movies, etc we in the west are more about death and advancement through struggle and war.

they became the bear
just like how native americans used animals to gain strength in battle
it's nothing strange really

odin is for cunning strategy

Except those nice parts of the world ate contested and fought over.
Rome was nice and temperate, and violent too.

Man himself is warlike.

completely retarded analogy my man
the most violent humans come from the southern hemisphere

I enjoy the idea of Viking armies carrying around a bunch of logs in case their berserkers needs to be put into timeout.