TY  - BOOK
AU  - Crichton,Michael
TI  - Eaters of the dead: the manuscript of Ibn Fadlan relating his experiences with the northmen in A.D. 922 
SN  - 0394494008
AV  - PS 3553 .C928 1976
U1  - FIC  
PY  - 1976///
CY  - New York : 
PB  - Ballantine Books,   
KW  - Ibn Faḍlān, Aḥmad,
KW  - Beowulf
KW  - Adaptations
KW  - Epic poetry, English (Old)
KW  - Heroes
KW  - Scandinavia
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Northmen
KW  - Monsters
KW  - Vikings
KW  - Dragons
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - gsafd
KW  - Fantastic fiction
N1  - Bibliography: p. 191-193
N2  - In the year A.D. 922, a refined Arab courtier, representative of 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random045/75037900.html
ER  -