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Noah at the History of Vikings.com. Joining me today is a very special man, the world's leading scholar on Viking Bers. He's an

archaeologist, PhD, and Viking Studies, an author of two books, The Viking Experience, and

Vikings Rades Culture Legacy. From the University of Nottingham, Mr. Roderick Dale, Roderick, thank you so much for

joining me today. My pleasure. The topic of our discussion today, and I'm just so excited to get

into this, is Viking Bers. And of course, you're a PhD in Viking Studies, and you wrote your

dissertation on Viking Bers, which I have a copy of, and I'll put a link to in the description below.

And as I was reading that, I was just so fascinated.

You've just taken so much information out there and compiled it into one concise document, which is so fascinating.

And reading much of your dissertation, I was shocked

as to how many misconceptions that I had about the Viking berserkers. Now, before we get

into those misconceptions, where do we get our knowledge of Viking berserkers from? Where do we

first hear of these shield-biting, frothing at the mouth, howling madmen

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