How a brawl in 18th-century Constantinople changed what we know about the Vikings

"Ibn Fadlan’s first-hand account of the Rus and their funerary rituals has secured his reputation as an important source for the study of ritual and belief across the Viking world. Nowhere else do we encounter eyewitness insight into this kind of Viking funerary ritual."

https://theconversation.com/how-a-brawl-in-18th-century-constantinople-changed-what-we-know-about-the-vikings-227188

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