Eaters of the Dead

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Eaters of the Dead (2006, Avon)

Mass Market Paperback, 304 pages

English language

Published Aug. 29, 2006 by Avon.

ISBN:
978-0-06-089156-5
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4 stars (1 review)

The year is A.D. 922. A refined Arab courtier, representative of the powerful Caliph of Bagdad, 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 . . . (source)

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Muy interesante el uso aquí de hacer pasar la obra por un estudio de un manuscrito y otras fuentes antiguas, incluyendo pies de páginas con discusiones del tema que aportan muchos datos culturales e históricos. La historia es sumamente original, pero quizás la historia es muy detallada en el comienzo y el final está narrado mucho más rápido, me hubiera gustado profundizar más en los wendol o el conflicto.

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  • fl. 922
  • Ibn Fadlan, Ahmad
  • Crichton, Michael - Prose & Criticism
  • Fiction
  • Fiction - General
  • General
  • Ibn FaòdlÃ¥an, Aòhmad,
  • Fiction / General
  • Adaptations
  • Beowulf
  • Ibn Faòdlåan, Aòhmad,