Geri and Freki
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In Norse mythology, Geri and Freki are two wolves which are said to accompany the god Odin. They are attested in the Poetic Edda, a collection of epic poetry compiled in the 13th century from earlier
A decoration on the Sutton Hoo purse-lid, showing a one-eyed figure (hard to see in photo) between two wolves, thought to depict Odin with Geri and Freki.
A modern ambiguous ink painting of Odin with his two ravens Huginn and Muninn, as well as his two wolves Geri and Freki.
A Vendel era bronze plate found on Öland, Sweden depicting a wolf-pelt warrior drawing a sword beside a dancing figure.
Berserker
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In the Old Norse written corpus, berserkers were Scandinavian warriors who were said to have fought in a trance-like fury, a characteristic which later gave rise to the modern English adjective berser
Geri and Freki
…to similar figures found in Greek, Roman and Vedic mythology, and may also be connected to beliefs surrounding the Germanic "wolf-warrior bands", the Úlfhéðnar. The name Geri has been interpreted as meaning either "the greedy one" or "the ravenous one". The name Geri stems from the root morpheme ger/gir, traced…
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Bearhooded Germanic warriors on Trajan's Column
Animal headed warriors on the Gallehus horns.