swords
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I recently read a book by Michael Crichton entitled "Eaters of the Dead", and there is also a movie based on it, under a different name called "13th Warrior". Anyway, it's a excellent read, and I reconmmend it to all.(haven't watched the movie though, but plan to)
Set in 922 A.D, it involves the journey of a group of vikings, accompanied by a Arab, to Northern Russia, near Norway. They investigate strange occurances, for settlements are being terrorized by "monsters". Crichton though, describes these "monsters" as Neanderthals, short brows and strong build bodies, shoulders broad.
I found it interesting to note, from Crichton's bibliographies and referrences, that the works of Beo-wolf are his notes he used to create the novel. He accounts for the real life Arab, by the name (looks in novel)...Ahmad Ibn Fadlan, who really went with a group of Vikings in the 10th century. But thats where the facts end, for Crichton makes the rest fiction, with the group encountering the Neanderthals.
Now it offers a interesting topic, that Neanderthals existed in the late Dark Ages, but only in pockets. Do you think it's possible? For Neanderthals to have existed at that time?
Has anybody read this book, by the way?....
Set in 922 A.D, it involves the journey of a group of vikings, accompanied by a Arab, to Northern Russia, near Norway. They investigate strange occurances, for settlements are being terrorized by "monsters". Crichton though, describes these "monsters" as Neanderthals, short brows and strong build bodies, shoulders broad.
I found it interesting to note, from Crichton's bibliographies and referrences, that the works of Beo-wolf are his notes he used to create the novel. He accounts for the real life Arab, by the name (looks in novel)...Ahmad Ibn Fadlan, who really went with a group of Vikings in the 10th century. But thats where the facts end, for Crichton makes the rest fiction, with the group encountering the Neanderthals.
Now it offers a interesting topic, that Neanderthals existed in the late Dark Ages, but only in pockets. Do you think it's possible? For Neanderthals to have existed at that time?
Has anybody read this book, by the way?....