![]() ![]() This proves to be his undoing because while staying with the men from the north, an emissary and kinsman of Buliwyf arrives telling the great leader that he and other his warriors are needed to help defend the kingdom of Rothgar from the creatures that attack under cover of the black mist. The Arabian courtier is a keen study of other men and their ways and he and his group stay awhile with the Vikings. But before he can complete his mission, his party encounters a group of Northmen. Ahmad ibn Fadlan is sent by the Caliph of Baghdad on a mission to assist the king of the Volga Bulgars. Set in the tenth century, Crichton uses the an account of an actual journey made by Ahmad ibn Fadlan to the land of the Vikings and weaves that account into the tale of Beowulf. ![]() The 13th Warrior (1976 originally published as Eaters of the Dead) by Michael Crichton
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