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Eaters of the Dead: The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan Relating His Experiences with the Northmen in AD 922 (later republished as The 13th Warrior to correspond with the film adaptation of the novel) is a 1976 novel by Michael Crichton, the fourth novel under his own name and his 14th overall.
The 13th Warrior (Eaters of the Dead) John McTiernan: 2001: Jurassic Park III (based on characters created by Crichton) Joe Johnston: 2003: Timeline: Richard Donner: 2015: Jurassic World (based on characters created by Crichton) Colin Trevorrow: 2018: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (based on characters created by Crichton) J. A. Bayona: 2022
The 13th Warrior is a 1999 American historical fiction action film based on Michael Crichton's 1976 novel Eaters of the Dead, [5] which is a loose adaptation of the tale of Beowulf combined with Ahmad ibn Fadlan's historical account of the Volga Vikings. It stars Antonio Banderas as Ahmad ibn Fadlan, as well as Diane Venora and Omar Sharif.
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The Book Eaters debuted at #2 on the Sunday Times bestseller list for fiction hardbacks in the UK, and reached #2 on the Vancouver Sun's list of bestselling international books in August 2022. [14] It was nominated for a Goodreads Choice Award in 2022. [15] Booklist named it a top science fiction/fantasy and horror debut of 2022. [16]
From IMDB's trivia section on the film: "Since Michael Crichton published his novel "Eaters of the Dead" in 1976, the basis of this film, it has become regarded as one of the most notorious hoaxes in Librarianship Circles. The Ahmad Tusi Manuscript that Crichton referenced in his bibliography as being the source of this story, is completely ...
1999: The 13th Warrior, action movie directed by John McTiernan mixing Beowulf with the travels of Ibn Fadlan; based on Crichton's Eaters of the Dead (see below). 2005: Beowulf & Grendel, starring Gerard Butler and directed by the Icelandic-Canadian Sturla Gunnarsson. 2007: Grendel, a made-for television movie on the Sci Fi Channel (United States).
The Book of the Dead was a collection of funerary texts used to guide the dead to Duat, the Egyptian underworld. The process of the Judgment of the Dead was described in Chapter 125 . [ 27 ] [ 3 ] The ruler of Duat, Osiris , presided over judgment.