{"id":12637,"date":"2022-01-04T20:58:24","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T03:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12637"},"modified":"2022-01-04T21:06:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T04:06:07","slug":"no-amanita-some-berserkers-were-even-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12637","title":{"rendered":"No Amanita \u2013 Some Berserkers Were Even Christian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PBUGQkpk3RE?start=263\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>With the assistance\u00a0of <a href=\"https:\/\/roderickdale.co.uk\/2022\/01\/04\/some-ruminations-inspired-by-the-myths-and-realities-of-the-viking-berserkr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roderick Dale, &#8220;doctor of berserkers,&#8221;<\/a> YouTube military historian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC9pgQfOXRsp4UKrI8q0zjXQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lindybeige<\/a> offers an entertaining and enlightening video on the literary legend of the Norse berserker.<\/p>\n<p>From Dale&#8217;s blog post,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is interesting to note how even those who accept the idea of <em>berserksgangr<\/em> as performance will often say something along the lines of \u201cAh yes, but when does performing madness spill over into becoming mad?\u201d When I argue that <em>berserksgangr<\/em> was a performance with social and cultural meaning that is lost to us, it immediately becomes performing madness in people\u2019s minds, even though that is not what I have proposed. The battle-mad berserker of popular culture is one of several realities that <em>berserkir<\/em> have. It just isn\u2019t a medieval or Viking Age reality. However, the popular view of <em>berserkir<\/em> as mad warriors is so strongly ingrained in the language we use to describe the historical realities too that it is hugely difficult to imagine anything different.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the assistance\u00a0of Roderick Dale, &#8220;doctor of berserkers,&#8221; YouTube military historian Lindybeige offers an entertaining and enlightening video on the literary legend of the Norse berserker. From Dale&#8217;s blog post, It is interesting to note how even those who accept the idea of berserksgangr as performance will often say something along the lines of \u201cAh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[134,105],"class_list":["post-12637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-norse","tag-war"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-3hP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7166,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7166","url_meta":{"origin":12637,"position":0},"title":"Ancient Precedents for a Norwegian&#8217;s Pro-Psychedelic Campaign","author":"Chas S. 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Now a new discovery on the other side of the island suggests even more of a Norse presence. After\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"archaeology\"","block_context":{"text":"archaeology","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=archaeology"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/content\/dam\/news\/2016\/03\/31\/vikingsnf\/04-vikingnf.adapt.768.1.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/content\/dam\/news\/2016\/03\/31\/vikingsnf\/04-vikingnf.adapt.768.1.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/content\/dam\/news\/2016\/03\/31\/vikingsnf\/04-vikingnf.adapt.768.1.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5295,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5295","url_meta":{"origin":12637,"position":4},"title":"Archaeologists Find Secret to Norse Sunstone?","author":"Chas S. 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