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MBORGA, ANCIENT BERSERKER POTION?

The hot drink runs down your throat,you notice how it takes over your body,your chest burns,your heart beats faster and stronger,and immediately you stop hearing what is around you,you stop feeling, there are no memories,no hunger or thirst, there's only him in front of you,his yellow eyes stare at you, you cannot escape,they put a spell on you,you lose yourself in that gaze and let yourself fall into a trance as everything disappears and burns around you,there,on the battlefield.His spirit floods you,his strength,his fierceness,his determination to defend his people and his lands,the wolf is inside you and he fights to get out.People say that berserker drank a potion of amanita muscaria or henbane,that they inhaled smoke from hallucinogenic plants and that they ate bread or drank fermented beer called mborga.Elite warriors,feared by their adversaries,they were not afraid,they didn't feel pain,they only let the spirit of the animal they had chosen guide them in battle (bear, wolf or wild boar).It seems that mborga was contaminated with ergot (toxic and hallucinogenic), it's also said that they used belladonna or a variety of amanita very popular in the Scandinavian forests: "Odin's hat", after all the berserker are Odin's warriors,and on the battlefield they will be chosen to enter Valhalla.There's not much certainty about the beer called mborga,but we know that it was a kind of fermented beer that was possibly brewed with ergot,belladonna,henbane,amanita muscaria and other types of mushrooms and hallucinogenic plants,which apart from giving the beer flavour,gave it psychotropic properties that induced the warriors into a wild trance, animal instinct and supernatural strength.When there's no fear, no cold,no pain... mborga floods your body with the spirit of the animal that now possesses you.Are you ready for battle, warrior?


 
 
 

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