A Viking Burial Described by Arab Writer Ahmad ibn Fadlan

Thor News ^ | May 12, 2012 | unattributed

[vladimir998]

You did. Crichton had an argument with a friend over whether or not Beowulf could still draw an audience. The resulting book was turned into a movie more than 25 years later: 13th Warrior. Essentially it is Beowulf as but based on the descriptions of vikings found in Fadlan. The book was originally called Eaters of the Dead: The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan Relating His Experiences with the Northmen in A.D. 922:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eaters_of_the_Dead

[mikrofon]

Triskelion Drill Thrall ...

[Born to Conserve]

“Ernest Borgnine at his grooviest.”

E. B. as Shack — Emperor of the North.

[stormer]

Two hundred Quatloos for the newcomer!

[Jim Noble]

Lo there do I see my father...

[SunkenCiv]

Or maybe the whole thing took place at a concert venue in Ireland, no one is sure.

[SunkenCiv]

Must be it happened in the 9th century then. :’)

I read it originally, hmm, sometime in the 1970s, in a book that *may* have been titled “Eyewitness to History”, otherwise “Witness to History”. Later I read a book with the opposite title, written by a multilingual diplomat present at the wartime Big Three conferences and whatnot.

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ca7xMkWZuc

[SunkenCiv]

She was asking for it.

[SunkenCiv]

The screenwriter would have to work in some girl on girl action.

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/ibn_fdln.shtml

[barbarianbabs]

yeah...right
Tony and Kirk
who cast them?

[kitchen]

Tales of the Vikings intro.

[wiggen]

exactly

[Vietnam Vet From New Mexico]

The book was “Eaters Of The Dead”

[Oztrich Boy]

Hey, let’s not forget THE LONG SHIPS.

Sorry. I am trying to do that after recently making the mistake of watching it.

[chesley]

Actually, he combined the two, although the events happened with several centuries separation in history.

[colorado tanker]

I can see why a girl would volunteer for this. A Viking slave could look forward to a life of hard labor without a family. Here, she is feted for a week followed by one of the less painful ways to die.