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Eaters of the Dead
by Michael Crichton (1976):
Full title:
Eaters of the Dead: The Manuscript of Ibn
Fadlan Relating His Experiences with the Northmen in AD 922,
a.k.a. The 13th Warrior.
Description:
The year is A.D. 922. A refined Arab courtier, representative of
the powerful Caliph of Baghdad, encounters a party of Viking warriors who are
journeying to the barbaric North. He is appalled by their Viking customs — the
wanton sexuality of their pale, angular women, their disregard for cleanliness
. . . their cold-blooded human sacrifices. But it is not until they reach the
depths of the Northland that the courtier learns the horrifying and inescapable
truth: He has been enlisted by these savage, inscrutable warriors to help
combat a terror that plagues them — a monstrosity that emerges under cover of
night to slaughter the Vikings and devour their flesh . . .
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