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Hello, and welcome to Gone Medieval. I'm Dr. Kat Jarman, and one of the things we'll

be doing in this podcast is look at some of the very familiar myths and legends about

the Middle Ages, and there's an awful lot of them, trying to disentangle the fact from

the fiction. And you might be familiar with the term go berserk, meaning to rupt in a

furious rage or go wild or become crazy with anger. And that term derives from the

berserkers who may be less familiar to some of you, but you may know them as a select

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