: Baer Serce is actually where our term "berserk"
: came from. It means "bare skin", referring
: to the fact that the actual, real-world Norse berserks
: ran into battle butt-naked high on schrooms screaming
: bloody murder and knawing on their dead, and weird
: shit like that.
Actually, I gotta disagree with that meaning. "Baer" means "bear" and "Serce" means "sark" or "shirt." Many of the Berserks wore skins of bears, and some believed they could even turn into bears as their rage swelled. (Norse shapeshifters usually donned an animal skin to become that animal.)
The skins were pretty loose, though, and they didn't wear undies, so even the most overdressed Berserk was pretty indecent. :-) Think of a Myth Zerk with the fur slid up the body about three feet. Then stop thinking about it.
--SiliconDream
