1. Vikings used “draumbinding” to drag the body out of panic before medicine could define trauma. One lay on cold earth while another pressed a palm to the chest and said “The fear leaves where breath begins.” That phrase still hits the vagus circuit, switching off panic faster than sedatives ever could. 2. The ritual died after King Christian IV outlawed Norse rites, but MIT revived it from sagas and saw identical neural patterns. Within 120 seconds, test subjects dropped heart strain by roughl