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The Hello and welcome to this special and very brief announcement episode of the

History of Vikings.

If this is your first time tuning in, welcome.

I'm so glad you found the podcast.

Every week, you will find episodes with today's leading historians about the history of medieval

Scandinavia, everything from Norse mythology to Viking raids, battle tactics, Old Norse death

songs, Odin, Thor, Valkyries, Iceland, berserkers, and really all things Viking.

Today, I wanted to let you know about a new TV show premiering on the history channel called History's Greatest Warriors

because I just so happened to be in it,

specifically in the second episode on Vikings.

I'm going to play you a short teaser for the show right now.

Every warrior culture in some way used fear as a weapon. And now an exclusive sneak peek of the

new series, history's greatest warriors. There's the trained Viking warriors, warriors that are

just going on like a raid for one year, and

then there's the berserkers.

A group of berserkers is this terrifying spectacle of wild men howling like a wolf or like

a bear, causing themselves to froth at the mouth, biting the rims of their shields.

And this is something which would have been terrifying. There's a debate about what their name means.

Some people think that their name comes from bear, or like the bear skin that they would

potentially wear.

But other people say that it comes from the fact that they would attack people bare,

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