![]() ![]() Before Ahmad reaches his intended destination, he meets a group of Norsemen who are even more unfamiliar to Ahmad than the Turkish tribes. Ahmad travels West with a large party and encounters Turkish tribes, whose people are unfamiliar to Ahmad. The events of the novel begin when the Caliph of Baghdad sends Ahmad on a diplomatic mission. The novel first establishes the provenance of the manuscript and the portrayal of the Viking Norsemen that Ahmad encounters. This guide refers to the Vintage eBook edition of the novel.Įaters of the Dead presents a freely adapted retelling of a historical manuscript by the 10th-century traveler Ahmad ibn Fadlan. The novel was adapted into a film in 1999, retitled as The 13th Warrior. ![]() Borrowing heavily from a historical manuscript by the real Ahmad ibn Fadlan and the epic poem Beowulf, Eaters of the Dead charts the journey of a Muslim Arab who travels from Baghdad to Scandinavia in the 10th century. ![]()
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