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BerserkerGrandson of the eight-handed Starkader and the beautiful Alfhilde, called bær-serce (bare of mail) because he went into battle unharnessed. Hence, any man with the fighting fever on him. “You say that I am berserker. And ... baresark I go to-morrow to the war.” —Rev. C. Kingsley; Hereward the Wake. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Berserker from Fact Monster:
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