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The Norse didn’t need mushrooms to get freaky, though some of them definitely helped. The sagas tell of warriors who shed their humanity like a shirt, frothing at the mouth, gnawing on shields, and charging naked into battle as if orgasm and annihilation were the same thing. These were the berserkers: battle-drunk, lust-mad, and terrifying enough to make kings outlaw them when the party went too far.

In this episode, I dive into the frenzy,  the drugs, the rituals, the ecstasy of the berserkergang. From Odin himself cross-dressing for sorcery to the warriors who fucked their way into beasthood, this is the Annals at their wildest. Strap in (or don’t), because I’m about to show how rage, sex, and shame carved legends that still echo like a war cry.

Where shame becomes legend… and sometimes, legend is just an orgasm in armor.

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