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Sunday, February 26, 2017
Who were the Berserkers?
Dictionaries
defined berserk as out of control with anger or excitement; wild or frenzied.
The word earned such a meaning from the most feared warrior among the Vikings –
the Berserkers. These wild and aggressive warriors fought their way in history
clad with animal skins and armed with axes, swords, shields, and uncontrollable
rage.
Who was Johann Struensee?
Enlightened
absolutism, an idea where the ideas of the Enlightenment championed and
implemented by monarchies ruling through divine right, spread across Europe in
the 18th century. From Russia to Spain, monarchies called for rule of law,
reason, and liberalism. Denmark on the other hand experienced absolute
absolutism under a strange circumstances. Reforms aligned to the Enlightenment
movement befell Denmark under the hands of a foreign German doctor named Johann
Struensee.