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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. One of a band of ancient Norse warriors legendary for their savagery and reckless frenzy in battle.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A wild warrior or champion of heathen times in Scandinavia. In battle the berserkers are said to have been subject to fits of fury, when they howled like wild beasts, foamed at the mouth, gnawed the rim of their shields, etc.; and on such occasions they were popularly believed to be proof against fire and steel.
  2. n. Hence A person of extreme violence and fury.

Wiktionary

  1. n. One of a class of legendary Norse warriors who fought frenzied and shirtless regardless of wounds (possibly due to ingestion of psychotropic and hallucinatory drugs such as Fly Agaric Mushrooms).
  2. n. One who fights as if frenzied, like a Berserker.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. one of the ancient Norse warriors legendary for working themselves into a frenzy before a battle and fighting with reckless savagery and insane fury

Etymologies

  1. Old Norse berserkr : *bera, feminine of björn, bear; see bher-2 in Indo-European roots + serkr, shirt. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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