Superb! Another episode of "well read" mythology and legends. This channel has become a direct inspiration for my own, and for helping to preserve the spoken word and the bardic traditions of our ancestors - thank you.
The interesting thing about the Beserkers to me is that the normal mode of warfare is to dehumanize the enemy (the other) to create a false courage and will to fight among normal soldiers in a social madness, but the Beserkers flip that and dehumanize themselves to be courageous in their internal madness. It may be more honest as a method and it may also show how insane these wars are.
They had soaps plus sweet smelling oils and a type of bath salt if they had the money. Viking men where clean they bathed about once a week when they could. They had combs etc.And they even washed and took care of their clothes.clothing was expensive to make a took a lot of time to make so they looked after clothes.
I heard a theory about the mushrooms that went further as a possibility. They used a member of their gang as a human filter. He would consume the mushrooms knowing it would inhibit him from battle and eventually incapacitating him. Before hand though, he would urinate into a bowl, filtering and diluting the compounds down enough to strengthen the warriors but not debilitating them. Yeah....if that's true... yikes.
There is a lot of evidence that suggests they used henbane, possibly in conjunction with the mushrooms, as a way to achieve the berserker state. Henbane causes lowered blood pressure, which would have aided in not blessing out as quickly, it also produces insensitivity to pain and at high doses can cause you to be unable to recognize human faces. Which all sound very familiar. Also I have been on an Henbane high and you feel invincible and like the gods are with you and sharing their knowledge and skill with you. So I can easily see how a Völva could through henbane seeds and leaves in large fire in an enclosed space and get everyone tripped out of their minds.
Not sure Where the Stories about Herbs or Mushrooms came from but Berserker Rage is All Natural, it comes from a High Flow of Natural Energy and Animal Instinct along with a Strong Will to Survive. I would also like to Point out that it was not just the Bear and the Wolf that were Chosen as a Totem, I have Chosen the Badger and if anyone can tell Me What that Name would be I would Appreciate it.
I'll ask of the berserks, you tasters of blood, Those intrepid heroes, how are they treated, Those who wade out into battle? Wolf-skinned they are called. In battle They bear bloody shields. Red with blood are their spears when they come to fight. They form a closed group. The prince in his wisdom puts trust in such men Who hack through enemy shields.
As a Úlfhéðnar I can tell you that the ability to do these things is genetic and rare. Most who have it go insane as they can't control there anger. Each explanation you said in this video is true to a degree, with exception of the mushrooms. The one who ate those toxic things didn't survive very long as they have a neurotoxin on them. The drugs would of essentially been cheating.
The correct pronunciation of “Úlfeðnar” (which means “Wolf Shirt,”) is as follows: Ool-feth-narr. The “e” makes a less elongated “ay” sound, like the “e” in the Spanish language always does. The “th” in the “feth” part of that spelled out pronunciation makes a SOFT ‘th’ sound, like in “father,” “mother,” or “brother -“ NOT a hard “th” like in “thick” or “thistle.” And finally, the r at the end is rolled. All r’s in Old Norse are rolled, just not in a crazily long or gesticulated fashion. Hope this helps! Also, “Berserkir” (meaning “Bear Shirt”) is pronounced like so, if you wish to know: Bear (and roll the ‘r’) - ser (say “ser” the same way you would say “bear,” just with an ‘s’ at the beginning, and also roll this ‘r’) - kur (roll this ‘r’ as well.) And congratulations! You’ve said the words, “Berserkir” and “Úlfeðnar” the exact same way the Old Norsemen would have said them.
elrenato82 curse the worshippers of Lucifer, the angel banished by God. Fools like you worship him and when judgement day comes you will suffer eternal pain and suffering
The Swiss warriors in Switzerland still fought berserker-like in the high times of the medievil times long after the tribe of the Tigurini (Part of the tribe of the Helvetii that fought Caesar and ended up settling in the area around Zurich (Switzerland) merged with the germanic tribes from Jutland (Denmark), the Cimbri and the Teutons. It's well known.
It should be noted that 'totem' was a term never used in pre-christian Scandinavia. However, there were associations between (in lack of better words) soul aspects and certain animals. This was not by choice, but nature. Some particular fierce people were described as having a "wolf-hugr", 'hugr' being the soul aspect concerning intention and willpower. The soul aspect 'hamr' allowed shapeshifting, a skill berserkers were known for, even if they were not alone to use it. Usuly this ment that the berserker put himself into a trance, possessing a bear to fight for him. This was risky, tho, since the one possessing would die if the animal did. Then there was the fylgja wich nearly always took the shape of a certain animal, but since it was a protective soul aspect very similar to the christian idea of a guardian angel, this is most likely not what the berserkers used for their rage. One thing that many ignore about the berserkers is that they were often mages as well, using the art of Sejd (song magic) as well as rune magic. This is interesting, considering that magic (especialy Sejd) was seen as somthing unmanly. Women could use it without social issues, even being respected for it, but men doing it were both laughed at and feared. Still, Oden/Odin, god of battle frenzy, was known for being particularly good at both thiese magical arts. The berserkers being both battle-ragers and mages makes sense considering their closeness to the god, but the combination means they were probably social outcasts.
berserker troops could be a double-edged sword, as they were difficult to control in a battle and were often ill-suited to formation warfare. Instead, they seem to prefer to operate in smaller groups, attacking independently. Olav Haraldsson (St Olav) put the berserkers in front of his own phalanx at the battle of Stiklestad in the year 1030, but instead of holding the line they attacked and thereby contributed to the king’s downfall.
MANY of these Comments are Childish and Misinformed. Berserkers are People Born with Rare Genetics . I am Living Proof, I can Turn it On and Off like a Light Switch and it does NOT Require Drugs or Special Potions. Yes. We do '' Hulk '' and it is almost like We go into a Trance, but We are VERY Focused and aware of What We are Doing. The Important Thing is to Learn Early How to Control it so it does not Control You. It's a Dangerous Thing , but can Be Beneficial if Used Correctly.
I wonder if it could be a combination of the different aspects mentioned. Since, there is no true way of knowing what was actually done to put them into a Berserker state of mind. Maybe, they combined some if not all aspects in one way or another.
Apparently, along with the magic mushrooms, the berserkers also drank a specially brewed beer and worked themselves into a frenzy. I've also heard that they burned special leaves that sent them into a trance.
I think that maybe the berzerker effect is just what happens when a hot headed Norse (such as myself) gets pissed the fuck off and in full fight mode and has an adrenaline rush. I've gone full berzerker mode before and had to have four or five men pull me off of somebody to keep me from beating them to death. And then I ended up giving fat lips to the people pulling me off. Yeah, if you piss me off to that point, RUN. Because I dont feel pain when Im like that. Mofos have hit me over the head with baseball bats and I just get madder and more bloodthirsty....
In some parts of Indonesia there are rituals where people get in a trance state or being posessed by animals spirits or demons and for example eat hot coles or glass and their skin becomes impenetrable
You always hear it said that the pain from a fight doesn’t hit until the adrenaline wears off. That’s what the Berserker rage is. A point where you’re simply so lost in the fight that your survival instincts cause your brain to ignore pain. Copious amounts of drugs and alcohol would certainly help to achieve this.
Sasuke Uchiha yes, but when you’re locked in a life threatening situation, pain can force you to move slower, cause you to hesitate or throw you off. And when the adrenaline wears off, the pain sets in, sometimes so extremely that it can send you into shock and kill you anyway. A bank robber who was shot in the heart with a low caliber from an officer’s revolver once ran for a full hour before he finally collapsed. For the Berserkers it definitely wasn’t about survival, but they got their bodies to give the same response.
1:47 They did NOT Drink ANY Animal Blood. The Totem was SACRED they would have Never Killed an Animal that had such Respect and Reverence for. Sounds like You need to Do some BETTER Research. If any Blood was Involved it was not the Blood of the Totem, they Used a Pig, Cow, or Sheep and Bathed in the Blood and Gore so they would be Used to the Smell and Slime and Not be Distracted by it When in Battle.
It's my understanding that the etymology of berserker can actually be traced back to two different words or two different combinations one of them being the bear shirts or those who wore the skins of Bears and the other ones being mushroom eaters it could be a combination of both
Um calling them all Berserkers is inaccurate in and of itself. Second thing Berserkers as in Bear skins are generally seen in the actual Sagas as being bodyguards of a Lord. Úlfhéðnar or wolf skins where referred to as Odin's men. Berserkers where not the same group as the Úlfhéðnar. The key difference though seem to be that Berserkers wore Mail and acted as bodyguards primarily. Where as the Úlfhéðnar where 100% shock troops they would also be used as scouts but they are where the modern image of the Berserker comes from. And yes Berserkers and Úlfhéðnar where large men. For the same reason that bodyguards today tend to be the size of linebackers. You would think twice about attempting to move up in society by killing your lord when he is surrounded by 6ft tall linebackers with dane axe's who trained for their position from childhood.
Thanks for the correction and extra bit of information! I'm writing a book, and I've considered making the protagonist a berserker. But lacked details about them.Thanks again 💪
Or it could just be some abnormal wiring in the brain, the right combination of fight or flight and either ASP traits or in/out grouping could vary well have achieved it, and well living alone in the wood sounds vary antisocial, and group chants/rituals do enhance in/out group dynamics
You are mentioning the two most respected animals of the Viking era but if we go before the Vikng era, we enter the Vendel era, with the name taken from the little village outside Uppsala called Vendel & where did this village get it's name from? Could it be from the Germanic tribe called tha Vandals. But anyway, their totem animal was the wild bore & there has been helmets found with wild bores on top of it. There is no doubt that they were Odin worshippers, since the pictures are the same as seen among the Viking warriors.
"Grossed out by their own bloody hands". Lol. The narrator hasn't been in any nasty fights would be my prediction.😂 These berserkers are my direct descendants. Their descendants populated this part of America over a century ago and you'll find tons of Norwegians and Swedes up here. Most of us are pretty large. I can only imagine what an army of us would have looked like to the British. As militant as we used to be, we're about the nicest group of folks in America. Really generous and kind folks. We may have pillaged most of europe for a few years there, but we DID bring you the Swedish Bikini Team centuries later as an olive branch.😂🤣😂 Nowadays, Norway is a freaking paradise. Whenever I get a student loan or medical bill, I think "why did my ancestors leave Norway and Sweden?" Bad choice.😂 As bad as things have gotten in America, those of us of scandinavian descent may have to brush-up on our old berserker skills.😂🤣😂
Average Viking was 5'7 to 5'8 and the same height as the British overall. Average white male is 5'9 to 5'10 today. Other races are 5'5 to 5'8. Tallest people in the 1500's to 1800s were the Plains indians at a average height of 5'9 to 5'10. White men at least in modern times are the largest race but again shorter ones are because of malnutrition. I am 5'9 but huge and am fine with my height but again my growth was stunted. Many great warriors actually had stunted growth early on as life was much harder back then. A wealthier Norse who could feed themselves and cared for their children better probably had taller offspring yes.
such rituals are common all around the world, mostly to induce a trance-like state and be more aggressive in battle, even wearing animal skins. Drugs of course is the key word here, even in WWI and WWII there are rumors of weird "wines" being handed to soldiers before storming enemy posts. It's also not a case, in my opinion, that military divisions often use animals as their patrons, as if to invoke their strenght. We aren't that much different from back then, in this regard, I think.
This is very much not true Ulfhednar were a group a elite group of fighters that fought and died for Odin bezerkers from bear wolf and boar totum all fought for Thor Ulfhednar are no bezerkers but they were the equivalent of modern day navy seals basically. Very extream fighters hoping to die in glory But a wolf bezerker is not a Ulfhednar. Bezerkers mainly used Shields and spears Ulfhednars only used 2 axes they rarely killed in combat too their main focus was dropping people out of combat they would target weak spots legs and throats to immediately take you out of the fight in such speed to overwhelm the enemy They preferred to kill you by bleeding out then straight up killing you Two very different fighting styles
Awesome vid as always, I'm sorry for not posting sooner bt I haven't long got back frm work, I'v always thought that my other half could have been a Basercer because he is what we Welsh say "built like a brick shit house" 😂🤣👍
You mean psychedelic mushrooms? For sure these beserkers consume Amanita muscaria to feed their apathetic rage and inability to feel pain in battle. They weren't simply ferocious warriors but a drugged or drunk ones.
Linda Ciccoli i think the best way to say it is that they were religious fantics prepared to die and please odin to go to valhalla. Just like islamists are prepared to blow themselfs up and kill foreigners to get into the paradise
@Mandalorian Patriot there warrior gene. It means higher expression of noradrenaline or adrenaline receptors or higher count of enzymes that convert dopamine into nor-adrenaline. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090121093343.htm
Great video! I see all these theories probably having overlapping degrees of validity at various times and in regards to changing circumstances. As for the hypnotic effect, it wouldn’t make sense for science, not really being very good at understanding altered states in the first place, to replicate a practice so deeply rooted in some of the most extreme dissociative, ferocious, survival-, faith- and possession-based totemic shamanism of all time in a 21st century human, so it’s a stretch to treat that as valid evidence. Still, very thorough and pedagogical analysis! Hail Odin, may the blessings of Glad-of-War’s bliss wash the blood from the eyes of those born from Valhalla and refine the old ways into transcendant technologies for peace and the liberation of all beings 🐻🐺🦋🧘♂️👁😁❤️🌍🤝🙏
The picture depicts the Viking had horns on his helmet. This is false and horns weren't documented in the Vikings records. The Opera is to blame for the horns lol.
Ulfhednar. There's a bitchin name for a black metal or viking metal band. If that is, the band could ever learn to correctly pronounce it. It would be pretty embarrassing if not. "You guys are on in 5. How do you say your name?" "Just, do your best man."
They had more totem animals then just two they had the bear totem, the wolf totem, the boar totem and more but most of the Viking/Germanic totem animals became lost throughout time.
They took 3 scoops instead of 2 scoops of pre workout
LMAO! Good one! 🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂
Lmfao
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More like 4 grams of shrooms
Creatine should be ingested by red meat only.
Superb! Another episode of "well read" mythology and legends. This channel has become a direct inspiration for my own, and for helping to preserve the spoken word and the bardic traditions of our ancestors - thank you.
You were never gonna die but if u dodmt listened again because of my own confusion.
Ashley Cowie couldn’t have said it better my self my friend (im🇸🇪)
They ate 3 vitamin gummies instead of the recommend 2
underated comment ahahhah
Broly must be a berserker descendent
true
Yessirrr
The interesting thing about the Beserkers to me is that the normal mode of warfare is to dehumanize the enemy (the other) to create a false courage and will to fight among normal soldiers in a social madness, but the Beserkers flip that and dehumanize themselves to be courageous in their internal madness. It may be more honest as a method and it may also show how insane these wars are.
According to that thumbnail they were a bunch of CC immune, lifestealing jungle dwellers
Yeah I forgot to mention that.
Pretty much sums up olaf's lore
Did bath salts exist back then? Sounds like they bathed in bath salts...
Sounds like my neighbor
They had soaps plus sweet smelling oils and a type of bath salt if they had the money. Viking men where clean they bathed about once a week when they could. They had combs etc.And they even washed and took care of their clothes.clothing was expensive to make a took a lot of time to make so they looked after clothes.
@@thebelfastvikingmartinbrow3603 r/woooosh
And you dont bath in bath salts
They used mushrooms
taking aNGER TO THE NEXT LEVEL
hey man the correct term is BLACK PERSON
Doom guys ansesters
I heard a theory about the mushrooms that went further as a possibility. They used a member of their gang as a human filter. He would consume the mushrooms knowing it would inhibit him from battle and eventually incapacitating him. Before hand though, he would urinate into a bowl, filtering and diluting the compounds down enough to strengthen the warriors but not debilitating them.
Yeah....if that's true... yikes.
Why wouldn't they just eat like 1/10th of a dose lol
Pretty sure drinking someone elses piss could kill you if not make you sick enough to not be able to fight
thanks for these videos. I learn a lot from your videos. Yeah!
In some Sagas, Berserker's are mentioned as personal Champions of the Jarl's
They mastered the Ultra Instinct mode!
ProtonCannon ultra instinct is when you dodge attacks not tank them
More like vegetas rage mode
There is a lot of evidence that suggests they used henbane, possibly in conjunction with the mushrooms, as a way to achieve the berserker state. Henbane causes lowered blood pressure, which would have aided in not blessing out as quickly, it also produces insensitivity to pain and at high doses can cause you to be unable to recognize human faces. Which all sound very familiar.
Also I have been on an Henbane high and you feel invincible and like the gods are with you and sharing their knowledge and skill with you.
So I can easily see how a Völva could through henbane seeds and leaves in large fire in an enclosed space and get everyone tripped out of their minds.
sounds like pcp angel dust
@@starwarsfannumber kinda, but without the high risk of triggering permanent mental issues. So that’s a plus.
Never was any drugs , one berserker took out 40 soldiers with just a axe. It’s complete will power , it’s animal like instincts.
Thanks to this video, I decided to create a barbarian character for D&D 5e.
TEMPUS!!
I always loved the shounen af training it took to become a berserker
true
I'm new to your channel but I want you to know you are spot on and please keep up the great work!
Not sure Where the Stories about Herbs or Mushrooms came from but Berserker Rage is All Natural, it comes from a High Flow of Natural Energy and Animal Instinct along with a Strong Will to Survive. I would also like to Point out that it was not just the Bear and the Wolf that were Chosen as a Totem, I have Chosen the Badger and if anyone can tell Me What that Name would be I would Appreciate it.
I'll ask of the berserks, you tasters of blood,
Those intrepid heroes, how are they treated,
Those who wade out into battle?
Wolf-skinned they are called. In battle
They bear bloody shields.
Red with blood are their spears when they come to fight.
They form a closed group.
The prince in his wisdom puts trust in such men
Who hack through enemy shields.
As a Úlfhéðnar I can tell you that the ability to do these things is genetic and rare. Most who have it go insane as they can't control there anger. Each explanation you said in this video is true to a degree, with exception of the mushrooms. The one who ate those toxic things didn't survive very long as they have a neurotoxin on them. The drugs would of essentially been cheating.
My favorite historic warriors ' awsome video 🖒🍁🍀🍻
I love love your videos keep them coming learning is powerful
The correct pronunciation of “Úlfeðnar” (which means “Wolf Shirt,”) is as follows: Ool-feth-narr. The “e” makes a less elongated “ay” sound, like the “e” in the Spanish language always does. The “th” in the “feth” part of that spelled out pronunciation makes a SOFT ‘th’ sound, like in “father,” “mother,” or “brother -“ NOT a hard “th” like in “thick” or “thistle.” And finally, the r at the end is rolled. All r’s in Old Norse are rolled, just not in a crazily long or gesticulated fashion.
Hope this helps!
Also, “Berserkir” (meaning “Bear Shirt”) is pronounced like so, if you wish to know:
Bear (and roll the ‘r’) - ser (say “ser” the same way you would say “bear,” just with an ‘s’ at the beginning, and also roll this ‘r’) - kur (roll this ‘r’ as well.)
And congratulations! You’ve said the words, “Berserkir” and “Úlfeðnar” the exact same way the Old Norsemen would have said them.
Nice. Is the S in berserker pronounced like an S or a Z?
I would love to be a Berserker👹
@A man has no name I Know This is old but Why Are you saying that...like what huh?
@@Tmid. hes just a 9 year old ignore him
@@haruaiaanims2143 Lmao the internet is crazy but it expected.
#Metoo
@@Tmid. yea lol there are alot of kids watching this video and being cringe on the internet
Hail the AllFather!
Hail the Dark Lord! Hail Satan!
@@elrenato82 enternal curse upon the satan and his pathetic worshipers
SKÁL!!!
elrenato82 curse the worshippers of Lucifer, the angel banished by God. Fools like you worship him and when judgement day comes you will suffer eternal pain and suffering
@@muhammadabujarad8276 Eternal curse upon religious nuts like you.
The Swiss warriors in Switzerland still fought berserker-like in the high times of the medievil times long after the tribe of the Tigurini (Part of the tribe of the Helvetii that fought Caesar and ended up settling in the area around Zurich (Switzerland) merged with the germanic tribes from Jutland (Denmark), the Cimbri and the Teutons. It's well known.
It should be noted that 'totem' was a term never used in pre-christian Scandinavia. However, there were associations between (in lack of better words) soul aspects and certain animals. This was not by choice, but nature. Some particular fierce people were described as having a "wolf-hugr", 'hugr' being the soul aspect concerning intention and willpower.
The soul aspect 'hamr' allowed shapeshifting, a skill berserkers were known for, even if they were not alone to use it. Usuly this ment that the berserker put himself into a trance, possessing a bear to fight for him. This was risky, tho, since the one possessing would die if the animal did.
Then there was the fylgja wich nearly always took the shape of a certain animal, but since it was a protective soul aspect very similar to the christian idea of a guardian angel, this is most likely not what the berserkers used for their rage.
One thing that many ignore about the berserkers is that they were often mages as well, using the art of Sejd (song magic) as well as rune magic. This is interesting, considering that magic (especialy Sejd) was seen as somthing unmanly. Women could use it without social issues, even being respected for it, but men doing it were both laughed at and feared. Still, Oden/Odin, god of battle frenzy, was known for being particularly good at both thiese magical arts.
The berserkers being both battle-ragers and mages makes sense considering their closeness to the god, but the combination means they were probably social outcasts.
Most importantly, they were natty
Natty with the 🍄
Legend has it that some of them were giants and the Roman armies had a heck of a time taking them down
Berserker barrage!!!
Now where did I heard that from?
Let's go, bub!
To reach the bezerker stage the Vikings used to eat mushrooms... nothing mistical about this. However nice little story.
Mystical *
Is ptsd symptoms encouraged it seems with the level of rage
Welcome to Valhalla.
Great video!
Vikings didn't have horned helmet. Ffs
No da einstein
@@alexanderthompson3805 say what?
True but the berserkers had those cool bear/wolf pelts. Super intimidating.
Its just a picture to represent the video, not really a fact
For sure that’s just Opra and dramatic plays but no facts.
That sense of confidence was not "false", mushrooms or not.
May you do a video about Ganesh please?
Coming soon :)
berserker troops could be a double-edged sword, as they were difficult to control in a battle and were often ill-suited to formation warfare. Instead, they seem to prefer to operate in smaller groups, attacking independently. Olav Haraldsson (St Olav) put the berserkers in front of his own phalanx at the battle of Stiklestad in the year 1030, but instead of holding the line they attacked and thereby contributed to the king’s downfall.
Great Video to learn about the Berserkers. Do you have a source to show? Would need one to relate to this video 😅
Thank u
It flows through our veins
Awesome thanks 👍
Imagine ur a farmer and you are in a fight with a 10 nord huscarls in mount and blade?
Gutts kinda fits here (in the black swords man arc mainly and also during the eclipse)
MANY of these Comments are Childish and Misinformed. Berserkers are People Born with Rare Genetics . I am Living Proof, I can Turn it On and Off like a Light Switch and it does NOT Require Drugs or Special Potions. Yes. We do '' Hulk '' and it is almost like We go into a Trance, but We are VERY Focused and aware of What We are Doing. The Important Thing is to Learn Early How to Control it so it does not Control You. It's a Dangerous Thing , but can Be Beneficial if Used Correctly.
I wonder if it could be a combination of the different aspects mentioned. Since, there is no true way of knowing what was actually done to put them into a Berserker state of mind. Maybe, they combined some if not all aspects in one way or another.
Maybe they were drinking copious amounts of brandy or vodka? hahahah
Apparently, along with the magic mushrooms, the berserkers also drank a specially brewed beer and worked themselves into a frenzy. I've also heard that they burned special leaves that sent them into a trance.
Lindybeige will like a word with you.
Lundybeige is full of shit though.
I got the Viking rage trait
I come from a long line of berserkers
What's the name of the mushroom?
Amanita Muscaria
I think that maybe the berzerker effect is just what happens when a hot headed Norse (such as myself) gets pissed the fuck off and in full fight mode and has an adrenaline rush. I've gone full berzerker mode before and had to have four or five men pull me off of somebody to keep me from beating them to death. And then I ended up giving fat lips to the people pulling me off. Yeah, if you piss me off to that point, RUN. Because I dont feel pain when Im like that. Mofos have hit me over the head with baseball bats and I just get madder and more bloodthirsty....
Yeah they pretty good in for honor too
In some parts of Indonesia there are rituals where people get in a trance state or being posessed by animals spirits or demons and for example eat hot coles or glass and their skin becomes impenetrable
You always hear it said that the pain from a fight doesn’t hit until the adrenaline wears off. That’s what the Berserker rage is. A point where you’re simply so lost in the fight that your survival instincts cause your brain to ignore pain. Copious amounts of drugs and alcohol would certainly help to achieve this.
Sasuke Uchiha yes, but when you’re locked in a life threatening situation, pain can force you to move slower, cause you to hesitate or throw you off. And when the adrenaline wears off, the pain sets in, sometimes so extremely that it can send you into shock and kill you anyway. A bank robber who was shot in the heart with a low caliber from an officer’s revolver once ran for a full hour before he finally collapsed.
For the Berserkers it definitely wasn’t about survival, but they got their bodies to give the same response.
Please do a video on William Wallace.
These dudes were on that " stuff "
Valahalla brought us here
A false sense of confidence is still a sense of confidence it makes sense
1:47 They did NOT Drink ANY Animal Blood. The Totem was SACRED they would have Never Killed an Animal that had such Respect and Reverence for. Sounds like You need to Do some BETTER Research. If any Blood was Involved it was not the Blood of the Totem, they Used a Pig, Cow, or Sheep and Bathed in the Blood and Gore so they would be Used to the Smell and Slime and Not be Distracted by it When in Battle.
It's my understanding that the etymology of berserker can actually be traced back to two different words or two different combinations one of them being the bear shirts or those who wore the skins of Bears and the other ones being mushroom eaters it could be a combination of both
Viking style of sweat lodge and shrooms.
don’t forget the part where they consume magic mushrooms before their ritual and battle 😅
About dissociation state in battle there book of Musashi Miyamoto who says something like that power is in nothingness or emptiness.
oof
Um calling them all Berserkers is inaccurate in and of itself.
Second thing Berserkers as in Bear skins are generally seen in the actual Sagas as being bodyguards of a Lord.
Úlfhéðnar or wolf skins where referred to as Odin's men.
Berserkers where not the same group as the Úlfhéðnar.
The key difference though seem to be that Berserkers wore Mail and acted as bodyguards primarily. Where as the Úlfhéðnar where 100% shock troops they would also be used as scouts but they are where the modern image of the Berserker comes from.
And yes Berserkers and Úlfhéðnar where large men. For the same reason that bodyguards today tend to be the size of linebackers. You would think twice about attempting to move up in society by killing your lord when he is surrounded by 6ft tall linebackers with dane axe's who trained for their position from childhood.
Thanks for the correction and extra bit of information! I'm writing a book, and I've considered making the protagonist a berserker. But lacked details about them.Thanks again 💪
Or it could just be some abnormal wiring in the brain, the right combination of fight or flight and either ASP traits or in/out grouping could vary well have achieved it, and well living alone in the wood sounds vary antisocial, and group chants/rituals do enhance in/out group dynamics
James Vann No, in fact it is the opposite of abnormal. Modern psychobabble culture is actually abnormally rewiring the brain.
You are mentioning the two most respected animals of the Viking era but if we go before the Vikng era, we enter the Vendel era, with the name taken from the little village outside Uppsala called Vendel & where did this village get it's name from? Could it be from the Germanic tribe called tha Vandals. But anyway, their totem animal was the wild bore & there has been helmets found with wild bores on top of it. There is no doubt that they were Odin worshippers, since the pictures are the same as seen among the Viking warriors.
"Grossed out by their own bloody hands". Lol. The narrator hasn't been in any nasty fights would be my prediction.😂 These berserkers are my direct descendants. Their descendants populated this part of America over a century ago and you'll find tons of Norwegians and Swedes up here. Most of us are pretty large. I can only imagine what an army of us would have looked like to the British. As militant as we used to be, we're about the nicest group of folks in America. Really generous and kind folks. We may have pillaged most of europe for a few years there, but we DID bring you the Swedish Bikini Team centuries later as an olive branch.😂🤣😂 Nowadays, Norway is a freaking paradise. Whenever I get a student loan or medical bill, I think "why did my ancestors leave Norway and Sweden?" Bad choice.😂 As bad as things have gotten in America, those of us of scandinavian descent may have to brush-up on our old berserker skills.😂🤣😂
Average Viking was 5'7 to 5'8 and the same height as the British overall. Average white male is 5'9 to 5'10 today. Other races are 5'5 to 5'8. Tallest people in the 1500's to 1800s were the Plains indians at a average height of 5'9 to 5'10. White men at least in modern times are the largest race but again shorter ones are because of malnutrition. I am 5'9 but huge and am fine with my height but again my growth was stunted. Many great warriors actually had stunted growth early on as life was much harder back then. A wealthier Norse who could feed themselves and cared for their children better probably had taller offspring yes.
such rituals are common all around the world, mostly to induce a trance-like state and be more aggressive in battle, even wearing animal skins. Drugs of course is the key word here, even in WWI and WWII there are rumors of weird "wines" being handed to soldiers before storming enemy posts. It's also not a case, in my opinion, that military divisions often use animals as their patrons, as if to invoke their strenght. We aren't that much different from back then, in this regard, I think.
Yes. But drug isn't solution by itself. It's just a tool to help enter desired state.
they 'almost' sound like skinwalkers
Every youtuber get this a-day
Nobody can beat the vikings
This is very much not true Ulfhednar were a group a elite group of fighters that fought and died for Odin bezerkers from bear wolf and boar totum all fought for Thor Ulfhednar are no bezerkers but they were the equivalent of modern day navy seals basically. Very extream fighters hoping to die in glory But a wolf bezerker is not a Ulfhednar.
Bezerkers mainly used Shields and spears Ulfhednars only used 2 axes they rarely killed in combat too their main focus was dropping people out of combat they would target weak spots legs and throats to immediately take you out of the fight in such speed to overwhelm the enemy They preferred to kill you by bleeding out then straight up killing you Two very different fighting styles
Awesome vid as always, I'm sorry for not posting sooner bt I haven't long got back frm work, I'v always thought that my other half could have been a Basercer because he is what we Welsh say "built like a brick shit house" 😂🤣👍
So they're basically Witchers without signs but with high dosage of steroids and LSD LOL
You mean psychedelic mushrooms? For sure these beserkers consume Amanita muscaria to feed their apathetic rage and inability to feel pain in battle. They weren't simply ferocious warriors but a drugged or drunk ones.
Wouldn't it be more believable if we haven't discovered this technique rather than dismiss it lol
there were also boar warriors named Svinfylking
I think the men who became berserkers suffered a form of PTSD. Not all vikings went berserk.
@Mandalorian Patriot I had never heard of that. Just googled it. Man, it must be tough.
Linda Ciccoli i think the best way to say it is that they were religious fantics prepared to die and please odin to go to valhalla. Just like islamists are prepared to blow themselfs up and kill foreigners to get into the paradise
@Mandalorian Patriot there warrior gene. It means higher expression of noradrenaline or adrenaline receptors or higher count of enzymes that convert dopamine into nor-adrenaline.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090121093343.htm
It was Psyllocybe Lanceata, not Amanita Muscaria.
Dont do mushrooms If you are from The norse! My friend did and he is going to jail!
Ooohhhh So my wife is a berserker !!😳🤣
I can replicate it. Give me a test subject some meth,dmt,and some skittles. I gt u
Rage incarnate you no longer stand before a man. Face now a Beserker.
This sounds like MK ULTRA honestly.
They brewed a Strength II potion and drank it.
Whose the beserker that one easy
Jim Nord
Berserkers worshipped odin and berserker was the giant blood inside you activating
When meditation goes wrong.
Great video!
I see all these theories probably having overlapping degrees of validity at various times and in regards to changing circumstances. As for the hypnotic effect, it wouldn’t make sense for science, not really being very good at understanding altered states in the first place, to replicate a practice so deeply rooted in some of the most extreme dissociative, ferocious, survival-, faith- and possession-based totemic shamanism of all time in a 21st century human, so it’s a stretch to treat that as valid evidence. Still, very thorough and pedagogical analysis!
Hail Odin, may the blessings of Glad-of-War’s bliss wash the blood from the eyes of those born from Valhalla and refine the old ways into transcendant technologies for peace and the liberation of all beings 🐻🐺🦋🧘♂️👁😁❤️🌍🤝🙏
04:00 - its was a performance enhancement drug.
For honor
The picture depicts the Viking had horns on his helmet. This is false and horns weren't documented in the Vikings records. The Opera is to blame for the horns lol.
They eat weird mushroom and before battle, took motivator class make sure they invicible.
They had to many flint stone gummies
Ulfhednar. There's a bitchin name for a black metal or viking metal band. If that is, the band could ever learn to correctly pronounce it. It would be pretty embarrassing if not. "You guys are on in 5. How do you say your name?" "Just, do your best man."
Magic mushrooms and alcohol (is what I heard).
Berserkers were psyops. Nordic Immortals.
The berserkers wore no clothes while battling.
I hope I'm not the only one coming from For Honor
The vikings only had two totem animals?
They had more totem animals then just two they had the bear totem, the wolf totem, the boar totem and more but most of the Viking/Germanic totem animals became lost throughout time.
Some warriors they were
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