God of War Ragnarok: How to defeat Haklangr the Bearded

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God of War Ragnarok features several mini-bosses to test your mettle in-game. These trials can be brutal for ill-prepared players, and it is highly recommended to use a mid-game to end-game Kratos to complete them.

This guide details how to beat the Berserker named Haklangr the Bearded.

Note: This guide contains minor spoilers for God of War Ragnarok.

The fight begins as soon as players insert the hilt into the gravestone.

Defeating this particularly troublesome Berserker will drop the following rewards for Kratos:

Players can find Haklangr the Bearded after they begin the Favor ‘Fit for a King’.

This Favor can be started when players reach Chapter 9, ‘Word of Fate’. From there, players will need to head to the King’s Grave, northeast of the Lake of Nine.

Kratos will subsequently obtain the mysterious 'Inert Hilt of Skofnung’ from an ominous gravestone that will summon a wall of ice. Upon getting the Hilt, one can insert it into any gravestone to begin the Berserker trials.

Haklangr can be found in The Sinkholes in Vanaheim, near the Mystic Gateway.

Berserkers are tough, optional boss battles in God of War Ragnarok. Players take control of Kratos and fight against these extremely powerful foes. The challenges are similar to the Valkyrie fights in God of War (2018).

They are incredibly high-level foes and as a result, players need to possess a good deal of cunning, strategy, and brute force to win. Furthermore, defeating these bosses will drop special loot that can be used to further augment Kratos’s weapons and abilities, making it very enticing to participate in.

These challenges are usually unlocked post-campaign.

God of War Ragnarok is an action-adventure game developed by Santa Monica Studio and published by Sony Interactive