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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 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.
Ahmad ibn Fadlan ibn al-Abbas al-Baghdadi (Arabic: أحمد بن فضلان بن العباس بن راشد بن حماد, romanized: Aḥmad ibn Faḍlān ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Baghdādī) or simply known as Ibn Fadlan, was a 10th-century traveler from Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate, [a] famous for his account of his travels as a member of an embassy of the Abbasid caliph al-Muqtadir to the king of ...
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Eaters of the Dead [24] 1976 Michael Crichton: A small Neanderthal population in Northern Europe is the source of the battles recorded in Beowulf. This story was also the basis for a motion picture The 13th Warrior (1999), though the word "Neanderthals" was never mentioned in the movie. Dance of the Tiger: 1981 Björn Kurtén
The print edition of Almanac of the Dead features a "Five Hundred Year Map," [5] [6] omitted in the e-book versions of the novel. The map depicts Silko's stylized version of the locations featured in the novel, with lines radiating outward from Tucson , Arizona to New Jersey in the northeast, San Diego in the west, and Tuxtla Gutiérrez in the ...
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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 ...