From the bestselling author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes an epic tale of unspeakable horror. It is 922 A.D. The refined Arab courtier Ibn Fadlan is accompanying a party of Viking warriors back to their home. He is appalled by their customs—the gratuitous sexuality of their women, their disregard for cleanliness, and their cold-blooded sacrifices. As they enter the frozen, … they enter the frozen, forbidden landscape of the North—where the day’s length does not equal the night’s, where after sunset the sky burns in streaks of color—Fadlan soon discovers that he has been unwillingly enlisted to combat the terrors in the night that come to slaughter the Vikings, the monsters of the mist that devour human flesh. But just how he will do it, Fadlan has no idea.
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I read this book more than twenty years ago and still remember how gripping it was. If you are a GOT can you need to read this book.
“The 13th Warrior” starring Antonio Banderas and a bunch of Viking berserkers is based on this Chrichton novel and it’s marvelous. Read it and enjoy. Possibly loosely based on the Beowulf saga.
Loved it.
learned alot about norms and standards of “northmen”
Starts a little slow but by the end was thoroughly enjoyable