Ahmad ibn Fadlan wrote the only eyewitness account of a viking funeral. German Vizulis/Shutterstock (made using Canva) On August 27 1761, a Danish explorer started a small riot in the grand bazaar of ...
“I am Ahmad ibn Fadlan, ib al Abbas, ibn Rasid, ibn Hammad. And things were not always thus.” This all brings me to The 13th Warrior, an Antonio Banderas film on Wikipedia’s list of Hollywood’s ...