Berserks

And: My acquisition software promised me a target-rich environment as Berserks swamed into the cave mouth ...

Gavin Smith, Veteran (2010) Adam Roberts 2010

And: My acquisition software promised me a target-rich environment as Berserks swamed into the cave mouth ...

Archive 2010-07-01 Adam Roberts 2010

Or was it some sort of race memory of her forebears, the Berserks, once again asserting itself?

Archive 2008-01-01 2008

Writing to Hooker, he says the one party to the quarrel failed to "set the affair straight with half a dozen words of frank explanation as he might have done;" as to the other, "like all quiet and mild men who do get a grievance, he became about twice as 'wud' as Berserks like you and me."

The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900

Saxons; but he sent to Adils his twelve Berserks, of whom were Bödvar

The Red True Story Book Andrew Lang 1900

At once he started for Upsala, and when he came with his ships into the river Fyri he then rode to Upsala, and with him his twelve Berserks, without any truce guaranteed.

The Red True Story Book Andrew Lang 1900

The Berserks went away ill-content with their lot, and told Rolf Stake what had been done.

The Red True Story Book Andrew Lang 1900

And they said: 'Is it true that Rolf Stake and his Berserks flee neither fire nor iron?'

The Red True Story Book Andrew Lang 1900

And I was as one of the Berserks of whom men spoke -- caring not for death if only I might slay one of those who had wrought me wrong.

A Thane of Wessex 1884

In Icelandic sagas, in the Relations of the old Jesuit missionaries, in the Travels of Pallas and Gmelin, we hear of medicine - men and Berserks who take liberties with red-hot metal, live coals, and burning wood.

Modern Mythology Andrew Lang 1878