Eaters of the dead : the manuscript of Ibn Fadlan relating his experiences with the northmen in A.D. 922
Michael Crichton
- 1st ed.
- New York : Ballantine Books, 1976.
- 278 p. ; 18 cm.
Bibliography: p. 191-193.
In the year A.D. 922, a refined Arab courtier, representative of powerful Caliph of Baghdad, encounters a party of Viking warriors on their journey to the barbaric North. He is appalled by Viking customs -- the wanton sexuality of their pale, angular women, their disregard for cleanliness, their cold-blooded human sacrifices. But only in the depths of the Northland does he learn the horrifying truth: he has been enlisted to combat a terror that comes under cover of night to slaughter the Vikings and devour their flesh.
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Ibn Faḍlān, Aḥmad, fl. 922 --Fiction.
Beowulf--Adaptations.
Epic poetry, English (Old)--Adaptations. Heroes--Fiction.--Scandinavia Northmen--Fiction. Monsters--Fiction. Vikings--Fiction. Dragons--Fiction.