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berserker

Legendary Norse warrior whose frenzy in battle caused their transformation into a wolf or bear, made them howl and foam at the mouth (hence ‘to go berserk’), and granted immunity to sword and flame. Such warriors were an elite associated particularly with the raging war god Odin.

The berserker may be portrayed as a member of a king's bodyguard, or an individual antagonist picking quarrels to force combat. Part of the bravado consisted in fighting without armour, but the skin of a bear or wolf may have been worn as distinguishing garb, giving rise to their reputed ‘transformation’.

It has been suggested that ‘berserker fury’ may have been drug-induced, or represented an explanation for other psychological disturbance.
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Though we would have been best served by trying to knock off tricks in the book, when Geoff remembered the school with the big white hips it was definitely Go Time and the team went berzerker, pulling several moves in the blazing sun.
Go time! by Burnett, Michael / Thrasher
Were you so excited that you went berzerker and killed yourself every time you got to a spot?
Jon Allie by Burnett, Michael / Thrasher
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