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The Viking Berserker

This blog post was written by PhD student Ruarigh Dale, who has just submitted his PhD theory on this topic.  The meaning of berserkr Publicity for the current Viking exhbition at the British Museum invites potential visitors to ‘go berserk’. The meaning of modern English ‘berserk(er)’ can be traced to the thirteenth-century Icelander Snorri Sturluson, …