Berserʹker.

Grandson of the eight-handed Starkaʹder and the beautiful Alfhilde, called bær-serce (bare of mail) because he went into battle unharnessed. Hence, any man with the fighting fever on him.

“You say that I am berserker. And … baresark I go to-morrow to the war.”—Rev. C. Kingsley: Hereward the Wake.