CONGRESS CANCELED Screening of The 13th Warrior
Description
A screening of the 1999 film The 13th Warrior, based on Michael Crichten's novel Eaters of the Dead, itself a loose retelling of Beowulf combined with Ibn Fadlan's tenth-century account of encounters with Vikings on the upper reaches of the Volga River. A commercial flop, the film is of interest to medievalists for its intersection of Old English literature and Arabic history and its depiction of language acquisition.
Elizabeth C. Teviotdale
CONGRESS CANCELED Screening of The 13th Warrior
Bernhard Ballroom
A screening of the 1999 film The 13th Warrior, based on Michael Crichten's novel Eaters of the Dead, itself a loose retelling of Beowulf combined with Ibn Fadlan's tenth-century account of encounters with Vikings on the upper reaches of the Volga River. A commercial flop, the film is of interest to medievalists for its intersection of Old English literature and Arabic history and its depiction of language acquisition.
Elizabeth C. Teviotdale