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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,
aka 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 . . .
