![]() ![]() The Norsemen cheerfully insult him, confident he doesn't understand them, but a montage shows him learning the language and startling them with his reply. ![]() Threatened with dire consequences, Ahmed, advised by a veteran courtier ( Omar Sharif in a cameo), prudently travels north as an ambassador to the Vikings, where he is seen as a curiosity and a challenge. At some point early in the production, it was apparently determined that endless scenes of long-haired Vikings in sword fights would be more interesting than the telling of these stories.Īntonio Banderas, perhaps hoping for another swashbuckling success like "The Mask Of Zorro," stars as Ahmed, a poet who has the misfortune to fall in love with his king's wife. The other is the Old English epic poem Beowulf. ![]() One is the real-life adventure of Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan, an Arab poet who traveled north to the Viking lands in the 10th century. Based on Eaters of the Dead, a 1974 novel by Michael Crichton, the story combines two intriguing sources. This could, indeed, have been a fascinating tale. ![]()
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