Berserkeri[1] (in lingua Germanica prisca: Úlfhéðnar vel "lupi vestiti") erant milites strenuissimi apud viccingos qui in furore bellico se ursos putabant. In proelio berserkeri vestitos disuebant, lorigas relinquebant et torso nudo contra hostes pugnabant. Etiam scuta mordebant.
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