Old Arabic Texts Describe 'Filthy' Vikings by Hanne Jakobsen describing the research of Thorir Jonsson Hraundal who has studied the Vikings who went east and who relies in part on one of the texts upon which Crichton also relied for his story, that of Ahmad ibn Fadlan. Describing a funeral rite:
In the case of a rich man, they gather together his possessions and divide them into three portions, one third for his household, one third with which to cut funeral garments for him, and one third with which they ferment alcohol which they drink on the day when his slave-girl kills herself and is burned together with her master.
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