a very weeny construct 💀

today i learned "berserk" as in "furiously violent or out of control" comes from old norse "berserker" (berserkir), who were "scandinavian warriors who were said to have fought in a trance-like fury."

but the word "berserker" itself means:

"bear shirt"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berserker

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So ‘serk’ or ‘sark’ must have been a Norse word for shirt used in English.

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