The Viking Funeral
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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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