Viking Berserkers
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This documentary explores one of the most famous units of Viking history, the Berserkers. We begin by describing the main traits of a Viking berserker. The first is their animalistic qualities. This is actually tied to the broad trend of animal-human hybrids which appear in civilizations across the world. The Berserkers appear to have emerged from the Norse version of this tradition with their sagas being filled with many instances of Norse gods, legendary figures, and mortals transforming into all kinds of animals. The Berserkers were just a subset of this group.
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Credits:
Research = Invicta
Script = Invicta
Narration = Guy Michaels
Art: Penta Limited
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"...their rejection by the community"
You know I'm something of a berserker myself
Nah, you're just an orphan in a declining Rome filled with rage and vengence. Just like all millenials who ware supposed to fix our parents failing marriages with good grades at school and ware bullied by vizigoths listening to hip hop and pissing into Rome's fountains!
Mostly because they killed their own during battle as well as the enemy
Blacked out pfp moment
We're in the same line bro 👍
💀💀💀
Three things.
1. Shrooms
2. Get high
3. Lop some heads
No
There is no mastery without death
The meaning of life is to fight to death
@@nahmate6172 ummm.... Deathcaps?
@@Void_Deserts_Tower Task yourself with killing a bear with a spear
They would come in handy on Black Friday at Walmart. 😅
Yes. Letting go of all fear, inhibition and sense of self preservation can be truly liberating. This reminds me of the time I surfed a hurricane with my pet shark so that we can get to the top of an erupting volcano and ski down the lava wave. Good times. Crazy times.
Indeed!
It’s a thousand year storm man
The meaning of life is to fight to death
When you eat the funny mushrooms:
“Dammn these mushrooms look funny”
They may actually have eaten small amounts of psychotropic mushrooms and even white flie fungus,
🍄 don't forget their magical diet! 😂
The Berserker of Stamford bridge. Valhalla is calling.
History says they took a drug that created the rage.
Shrooooms
@@brumbrum181 Probably ?
I know of one Berserker who travelled around as a merchant. he had a moose pelt that was blessed so that no weapon could pierce it. so all who challenged him during his travels met a gruesome end, when he was struck the pelt merely let out some dust but nothing else happened.
No that's a dude with a broken shield from deviant art
Didn't they eat mushrooms to reach that enraged state?
Can you provide a historical source from which you get this information?
Watching the Northman gave me a new appreciation for berserkers
ah yes hollweird, the place famous for it's historical accuracy
@@ImpeachObamaASAP2010 The Icelandic historian and poet Snorri Sturluson (1179-1241) wrote the following description of berserkers in his Ynglinga saga:
“His men rushed forwards without armour, were as mad as dogs or wolves, bit their shields, and were strong as bears or wild oxen, and killed people at a blow, but neither fire nor iron told upon them. This was called Berserkergang.”
The movie had researchers referencing many different sagas. Many movies are wrong or perpetuate misconceptions but then there’s historical films that try to visualize history. The Northman is crazy and has supernatural elements because that’s how most norse sagas are written, they make good stories.
Me: You going to tell us how this is the modern misconception of what a berserker really was right?
Invicta:(¬_¬ )
Me: Right?
Invicta:(¬‿¬)
The Icelandic historian and poet Snorri Sturluson (1179-1241) wrote the following description of berserkers in his Ynglinga saga:
“His men rushed forwards without armour, were as mad as dogs or wolves, bit their shields, and were strong as bears or wild oxen, and killed people at a blow, but neither fire nor iron told upon them. This was called Berserkergang.”
For anyone who cares, virtually all of this is pure speculation, and almost entirely unlikely to be true. The sagas are considered mere mythological record and purely interpretive of what the peoples of the time thought of as their history, with no reason to believe the veracity of any of it. But even beyond this, the sagas mention woefully little about berserkers too.
It's incredibly unlikely that warriors chose to go into battle wearing so little protection. Think about it. Warriors/soldiers/mercs were humans just like us. They needed to do battle/have practice many times before becoming good soldiers. Do you think they would have survived more than a handful of battles with no shirt/leather/mail on? Absolutely not. Probably not even the first battle.
It benefits no one to go into battle this way when you don't have to, not your lord, your employer, nor yourself. It would simply be thought of as dumb by any actual combatants, especially enemies, who if anything would be grateful you made yourself so vulnerable and battle-ineffective.
The legend of these "warriors" survives purely on hopeful, cool-sounding rhetoric.
Well when you take into account that they believed if they died in battle, they'd go to heaven, that their culture valued skilled warriors and their environment had plenty of psychedelic mushrooms, it doesn't seem that far fetched.
Ever heard of the Japanese and their suicidal tactics? They're also human but what the fuck have they done!
Enter fury, enter rage
See the madness in his gaze
Unbreakable
A creature out of control
Enter fire, enter death
Smell the blood upon his breath
Man or beast
Destruction released
The history of berserkers is so interesting
Almost everything said here is a lie
Thank you
The Berserkers and Ulfheðnar are pretty interesting in my opinion.
Berserkers were never a thing.
I'm kind of shocked that Invicta of all channels would propagate this historical misconception.
At best it was a title bestowed on warrior champions of a chieftain. This vision of units of near naked, skin clad madmen raging through the battle with no regard for themselves is a modern myth.
I'm more Inclined to believe the mentions of berserk rage we see in the sagas are more likely to be in period ways of explaining PTSD episodes than anything else.
It’s actually pretty typical of invicta. It’s become garbage over time
Its the same sort of inaccuracies such as thinking that homosexuality was common or even acceptable in ancient societies (in fact they usually were stoned to death or banished etc). And these inaccuracies tend to come from mistranslations of the word ‘love’.
@@JoshLevo Then why watch the content and comment? Are you hate-watching it? Just unsub and move on, stop making drama about it. 🤣
@@JoshLevo there's plenty of evidence of homosexuality in ancient societies such as rome and the greek states.
Who remembers Bjorn from Vinland Saga? Always trying to eat a mushroom to turn into a berserker
Didn't he only do that like 2 or 3 times tho?
@@N0tAlpharius I just seen him again after watching season 2 episode 9. But that’s Thorfinn’s nightmare of Valhalla
You should include the mushroom that they consume before battle
Its an untrue theory, baseless and just spewed randomly.
I just told my Grandpa about Berserkers, and he said he's never heard of them, and it can't be true. He said he has read books on Vikings and their Era. I said in none of those books they never mentioned the class of infantry the Vikings had called Berserkers? He looked at me like I was stupid. 😅 NBD just thought it was a funny conversation.
He is right, i don’t know why this channel keeps on treating it like a “unit” or something like that… it’s like saying “the demigod were ancient warriors of Greece”
@Davide C. Interesting. Thank you! I didn't doubt my Grandpa, but I was unsure. It was just funny the way he looked at me. So, I knew then that I was probably wrong.
Ur grandpa is right. Most of those channels got their wisdom from popular sources that repeat interesting new ideas. Science has no long term memory , it can be changed within 1 generation if the audience prefers latter ones. Science is the evaluation of very few who seek wisdom, the majority has absolutely no part in science, yet everyone thinks he’s part of the scientific community by just repeating old and new lies.
My understanding was that berserkers were the equivalent of champions.
They’d fight in tournaments/ duels on behalf of their employer.
Well there are mentions in the Sagas of Warriors clad only in Wolfs pelts fueled by some kind of rage. These however can hardly be taken as historical president
Social Media exaggerates. But the berserkers were actually tough men some giants some medium sized. They would break the enemy sheildwall by them selves that's what they would do.
One of them was at Stamford bridge who killed over 40 Saxons before being mauled with a Saxon spear from under the bridge
Yet the only way they could beat him was to resort to shady sneak pokes lol skull to the fallen berserker on Stamford bridge Skull
In islandic sagas Berserkers were descripted as Elite Fighters armoured to a point that they looked like "Men out of iron" the Berserkers were categorized as bloodcrazed battleaddicts
That's right. "Father make us worthy to fight the beast, and defend our people."
and this is not the point to blame the Christianity or any other religious source, when the place remains empty something else comes
Taking some caps tonight and gonna howl at the moon
Its said psycopaths were great soilders as they could do unthinkable things. Striking fear in the enemy.
Yeah that works out great until they decide to do those things to you and your people because you know, they're a psychopath.
You're both right and wrong I come from a line that has in total over 400 years of combat experience 300 in the Mediterranean and around another 100 in the north Atlantic pre viking age and yes Psychopaths/Sociopaths make great warriors because it becomes more like math then actual life threatening combat to them
but they make terrible seriously unstable lines everyone in my family has stronger upper mid backs and shoulders (the muscles you're actually going to use to drive a sword through someone)
but we also are prone to Boderline Personality Disorder Kleptomania Pyromania chemical imbalances to make an almost half a millennium story short you can't be that combative without fucking up your descendants farmers have strong hands for grip strength and their descendants usually do too
musicians have great hand dexterity and their descendants usually do too
combative people tend to have a seriously diminished emotional range and their descendants do too
there is ALWAYS a trade off just comes with the territory It's the real example of sins of the father
your actions matter more then you'll realize if your having offspring starting a potential line and it's your consistent actions that matter the most Peace n Love
Ulfhednar had no shields.
Weren't these guys on drugs when they went berserk.
A thick bearskin was reasonably good armour when / where iron was scarce and expensive. Did berserk meam bear shirt?
Thanks for the tidbit info
The berserkers would attack their own people, due to them being under the influence of mushrooms and other herbs
Not true. Thats a baseless myth that isnt believee by anyone.
Rome Total War vibes
Their behavior on rejecting the Viking gods is unacceptable!!!
Viking Skinwalkers.
A wonderful historical coverage short video
BerserkerGANG 😤
Losecannons! 👍🏻
the truth about the Vikings only the true Vikings know, it doesn't come from any academic source, neither from the films. and it is not accessible to everyone , you can not become the Viking, you are or you are not
NO ~ WRONG ... The "Sirker" is a Shirt or CIRCLE of wraping like a cloak ~ The "Ber" means "BEAR" as in grizzly bear. or whatever kind of bear. So basically the Bir Sirker means BEAR SHIRT . If you killed a bear you could wear the Bir Sirker ~ And the fame of having killed a bear was with you in battle. That and some aminita muscera mushroom brews they made prior to battle. The word "FURY" comes from these rituals when the intoxicated bersirker would charge into battle after imbibing the brew a halucinagenic numbing anger provoking sort of stimulant. We in the west have had some very lovely trips with mushrooms but the vikings turned their mushroom brew into an erageing element to enhance their attacks. Back then in those parts there was little formation and combat was mostly hand to hand man on man.
someone needs to do some actual research
Bear shirt
They were also taking some natural extasy, I read something like that. But I am not historian so...
well yeah between that and the threat that this guy could just come walking out of the fucking woods at any time and be like... beautiful family and farm you have... I will take them all.. that's why it was outlawed
Homework for you….
Look up the meaning of berserk in Norwegian 👍 gives a different view
When I put berserk in Google translate it comes back with berserk.
@@J040PL7 sorry I forgot old Norse beirsark where the word berserk comes from actually meant champion
I found it out on lindybeige when he did a bit on the history of berserkers
I AM ALSO Rejected by my Community
No. They weren't rejected by the community. Harald Fairhair had a retinue of them. All of Egil's male ancestors in his saga are believed to be one's as well and were held in high regard. The association with animals you need to understand how animism and ferverant beliefs works in conjunction with one another. Adopting the Hamr of beasts made you thus. And combine that with an intense fervor. They also in my opinion weren't crazed but elite warriors able to get into the "zone" and be able to react and therefore move quicker then lesser warriors much like how modern athletes describe getting into the "zone" and maintaining an intense focus and prowess
They were supposedly murderous psychopaths, they would be exiled to Greenland,... Leaf Ericsson's dad "Eric the Red" i read somewhere that he was a berserker, thus Leaf was known as a "Greenlander" because of his father's exile
berserker just means champion...
So they were Viking special forces
So why’s he got a shield and a helmet on lol
I dont think that first warriors shield was serviceable.
blood red
They were hopped up on drugs, too!
The berserkers fell into decline because of technological advancements in arms and armor and superiority of standing professional armies.
Berserkers killed off by archers' arrows and skirmishers javelins. No armor, bad idea.
They were on a lot of drugs that made them crazy and not feel pain so essentially they could take quite a few arrows or javelins before falling
They could only use the skins of a kill. It is the way
Media exaggerates viking/norsemen/pagan history beyond belief if your gonna make content on it atleast respect it enough to be correct also didn't even include the magic shroomy part which is the absolute biggest contribution to the beserkr state of mind
Bear serk.. from the bear skins they wore from bears they had killed themselves whilst drunk on mjod
do some research, Berserkers were body guard heroes
hey... im still alive n beserkin!!!🎊🎉🎸🎸🎸🎸😁🐣🐣🐒🐒🐒🐵🐵🐵🐯🐯🐯🐯
They willbe cut to pieces
The faith hasn't faded from history there are those who survived the force christian conversion of Scandinavian lands & Iceland to this day.
sometimes they turned on their own - so even the vikings themselves could get hurt - there was no trust in berserk gang
That's because from what I've read they were on a lot of crazy drugs and stuff that made them "berserk"
They most definitely werent societal rejects. Actually learn facts
Stop propagating these false descriptions of the berserker.
Besekes🤣
As always christianity ruins all the fun
Im glad 🙂
Yeah, I'm actually glad Christianity did that. 👀
And yet somehow Christianity somehow couldn't stop pedophiles or genocide. =/
They also consumed magic mushrooms to make them an unstoppable force
That's such a myth 🤦
They sound like raging incels
What do they have to do with sex? 🤦♂️
I'm sure they raped plenty during their drug induced rage.
They are turning into ikea staff
Berserker Gang
Everything said in the video is based on a shitty Wikipedia page and total war games
and drugs.. don't forget drugs
No no it didn't all men are a berserker clearly you never seen a man lose everything 😂
Thank God they declined Beserkers were truly the most dangerous kind of Viking !!
if they would have existed, yes... but they don't
In other words. They are furries.
Please be careful going berserk can kill you, I did a study on Berserkers and discovered that the Berserker is the Æsir of Asgard who was small yet strong a Braveheart. Through personal experience I learnt to go berserk by bravery and symbiotic relationship with a spirit animal, what happens when I get brave is I psych my self up then my adrenaline increases and my hair raises and I feel this sensation in my mouth.
the sensation you are feeling comes from the paint you are huffing
you sound pretty cringe
Angry furries
The practice of berserkergang has not faded away from history or the present era, we simply went into hiding since the start of Christianity and we have been regrouping ever since. It's forbidden to practice raiding and killing in battle but we remain strong, we will not have Christians ruling our lives.
They had rituals, sacrificing to the gods to gain super natural spirits giving them almost immortality