berserkir

These guys had two titles – berserkir (bear shirt) or ulfhednar (wolfskin.)

Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » INTERVIEW: Juliet Marillier, Part 2 2006

The infatuated speculator and the close-fisted millionnaire are our substitutes for the mediæval berserkir, -- the man who loved the pell-mell of a contest so well that he would make war on his neighbour, just to keep his hand in.

The Unseen World, and Other Essays 1876

The infatuated speculator and the close-fisted millionaire are our substitutes for the mediaeval berserkir, -- the man who loved the pell-mell of a contest so well that he would make war on his neighbour, just to keep his hand in.

The Unseen World and Other Essays John Fiske 1871

The eyes, now weak with debauch, had glowed with the maniacal fury of the berserkir in the battlefield.

Alfgar the Dane or the Second Chronicle of Aescendune 1863

"But in his own day he was better known as a ferocious manslaughterer called a berserkir.

In Other Worlds Attanasio, A. A. 1984