berserkr
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Old Norse[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From bjǫrn (“bear”) and serkr (“shirt, coat”) thus literally "a warrior clothed in bearskin." Probably not from berr (“bare, naked”); see berserk.
Noun[edit]
berserkr m (genitive berserks, plural berserkir)
- a raging warrior of superhuman strength, who fights in a frenzy
- a Scandinavian warrior
Declension[edit]
Declension of berserkr (strong i-stem, s-genitive)
masculine | singular | plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | berserkr | berserkrinn | berserkir | berserkirnir |
accusative | berserk | berserkinn | berserki | berserkina |
dative | berserk | berserkinum | berserkum | berserkunum |
genitive | berserks | berserksins | berserka | berserkanna |
Descendants[edit]
- → Danish: bersærk
- Norwegian Bokmål: berserk
- → English: berserk
- → Finnish: berserkki
- → Faroese: berserkur
- → Icelandic: berserkur
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: berserk
- → Scots: berserk
- → Swedish: berserk, bärsärk
References[edit]
- “berserkr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press