For other uses, see Vaccine (disambiguation). A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe, its toxins or one of its surface proteins.
[ 2 syll. e-gil, eg-il ] The baby boy name Egil is pronounced as EH-GahL â . Egil is primarily used in Scandinavian and it is of Old Norse origin. Original forms of the name include Aghi (Old Norse) and Egill (Old Norse).
The earliest surviving reference to the term berserker is in HaraldskvÃ¦Ã°i, a skaldic poem composed by ThÃ³rbiÃ¶rn Hornklofi in the late 9th century in honor of King Harald Fairhair, as ulfheÃ°nar (men clad in wolf skins). This translation from the HaraldskvÃ¦Ã°i saga describes Harald's berserkers: