The Viking Funeral
By KasperBatz
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  • Historical Fiction
  • amwriting
  • caliphal
  • chieftain
  • creative
  • essay
  • fiction
  • folklore
  • funeral
  • historical
  • historicalfiction
  • history
  • mythology
  • nonfiction
  • norse
  • pyre
  • sacrifice
  • short
  • slave
  • story
  • viking

Description

In the year 921 A.D., the Arabic diplomat Ibn Faḍlān made an account of a Viking funeral. He was part of a caliphal embassy that made the trip from Bagdad to the Volga area, today's Russia. I have reimagined his account from a different perspective - to that of a girl who joins her chieftain in death.

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