berserker

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Etymology

Introduced in English with the spelling berserkar by Walter Scott in his 1822 novel The Pirate from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Norse berserkr. The science fiction sense was coined by Fred Saberhagen in 1963 in his Berserker series.

Pronunciation

Noun

berserker (plural berserkers)

  1. A berserk (a crazed Norse warrior who fought in a frenzy).
  2. One who fights as if frenzied, like a berserker.
  3. (science fiction) A type of von Neumann probe whose mission is to exterminate alien lifeforms.

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