The 13th warrior
Subtitle: (formerly titled Eaters of the dead) : the manuscript of Ibn Fadlan relating his experiences with the Northmen in A.D. 922
Edition: 1st Ballantine Books ed.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 1988
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780345354617
Copyright date: 1976
Subjects: Vikings; Fiction
Other titles: Thirteenth warrior; Eaters of the dead
Description: Now a major motion picture from Touchstone Films, starring Antonio Banderas. In the year A.D. 922, a refined Arab courtier, representative of the 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.