Berserkers on the Battlefield: The Show Notes

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Here are some documentaries we used to start off our research:

Our ancient and modern sources include:

HistoryExtra.com: The Truth about Viking Berserkers

Michael P. Speidel. Berserks: A History of Indo-European “Mad Warriors.” Journal of World History

Tom Hale. “This Mind-Altering Drug Likely Fueled The Psychotically Fierce Berserker Warriors.” IFL Science

Egil’s Saga, W. C. Green translation

Taking the Piss: Reindeer and Fly Agaric

Jackson Crawford: Berserkrs in Norse Myths and ‘Egil’s Saga’

THE YNGLINGA SAGA

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: Eleventh Century

Viking Answer Lady: Berserkergang

The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway, by Snorri Sturlison, William Morton Payne translation

The Danish History, by Saxo Grammaticus, Oliver Elton translation

A Seeress from Fyrkat?

Karsten Fatur: The Henbane Hypothesis: Viking berserkers and Hyoscyamus niger

Kyrstinn Joseph: THE BERSERKER STATE AND AMANITA MUSCARIA

Did Henbane make Berserkers go Berserk? Medievalists.net

Karsten Fatur: Sagas of the Solanaceae: Speculative ethnobotanical perspectives on the Norse berserkers. ScienceDirect

Torslunda Plates: Artifacts of Norse Mythology Scenes

The Lewis Chess Pieces: National Museums Scotland

Grettir’s Saga. G. H. Hight translation

Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character: Johnathan Shay, Ph.D., MD