What becomes of a man of words when he is thrust into a world of swords? This is the central question of The Thirteenth Warrior. Our guide on this journey is Ahmed ibn Fadlan, a refined court poet from Baghdad, exiled to the cold, unfamiliar North. He is a man of observation, not of action. His exile catapults him into the raw, unforgiving world of the Norsemen. He observes, with the veiled dis...
