From: William Supon
Message: 4016
Date: 2004-01-13
This is correct. The Arabic traveller Ibn Fadlan's account of a Viking funeral, which was borrowed almost word-for-word by Michael Crichton for his novel "Eaters of the Dead" (made into the movie "The 13th Warrior"), was a Rus funeral. According to a Nova documentary I have, they settled what would later become one of the major Russian cities (Kiev?) and travelled along the Dnieper (sp?) river. The details are a little fuzzy for me, because I haven't watched the documentary recently.Jamie----- Original Message -----From: Plastikdol@...Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 9:20 PMSubject: Re: [norse_course] Re: Help with one phrase? - Old Norse and runestones (myths)I think they actually were Vikings, not just descendants. I remember hearing somewhere that the word "Rus" was from the Finnish "Ruotsi", their term for Swedes.
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