Amanita muscaria
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Amanita muscaria was a fungus native to the subarctic climates of Earth. It was poisonous, and ingesting it could cause profuse sweating, convulsions, and acute delirium. The Vikings knew it as the atuta, a powerful plant they boiled into broth and consumed before battle for spirit.
In 2371, The Doctor identified an Amanita muscaria to Freya in the Beowulf holodeck program. (VOY: "Heroes and Demons")
Amanita muscaria is known in English as the fly agaric or the fly mushroom. There is a common notion that Vikings used it to to induce their "berserker" rages, but there is little historical evidence for this.
