He has great difficulty understanding their humor and is incapable of producing adequate jokes or songs when called upon to do so by his fellow warriors. He is disgusted by the wanton sexuality, their rites for the dead-including human sacrifice, and their raucous parties at the most inappropriate (to him) times. Just when Ahmad resigns himself to dealing with one disgusting custom, like drinking incredible amounts of mead, then another custom is presented to him. Our narrator soon finds himself traveling and living with these men-men who are dirty and have the most appalling customs. Buliwyf, to Ahmad ibn Fadlan's dismay, chooses the refined representative of the Caliph as his thirteenth warrior and refuses to take no for an answer. It winds up that, according to Viking custom, the correct number of warriors for such a hero's quest is thirteen.and the thirteenth warrior must be a foreigner. This proves to be his undoing because while staying with the men from the north, an emissary and kinsman of Buliwyf arrives telling the great leader that he and other his warriors are needed to help defend the kingdom of Rothgar from the creatures that attack under cover of the black mist. The Arabian courtier is a keen study of other men and their ways and he and his group stay awhile with the Vikings. But before he can complete his mission, his party encounters a group of Northmen. Ahmad ibn Fadlan is sent by the Caliph of Baghdad on a mission to assist the king of the Volga Bulgars. Set in the tenth century, Crichton uses the an account of an actual journey made by Ahmad ibn Fadlan to the land of the Vikings and weaves that account into the tale of Beowulf. The 13th Warrior (1976 originally published as Eaters of the Dead) by Michael Crichton

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