Name: ___________________________

THE 13TH WARRIOR VIEWING GUIDE

1. What is Ahmed Ibn Fahdlans original occupation?
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2. Why is Ahmed sent away?
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3. What job does the Caliph give Ahmed?
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4. What happens when Amhed meets the Northmen?
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5. Why are the Northmen celebrating? ______________________________________________
6. Who is made the new king? ____________________________________________________
7. What things are put on a Viking kings funeral barge and what is done with it? _____________
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8. Why does the boy stand on the bow of the ship? ____________________________________
9. What does Ahmed seem to think of the Northmens washing habits? ____________________
10. What is attacking the boys homeland? ___________________________Why cant they name
it? _____________________________
11. Who do they call to determine which warriors will go on the trip? ________________________
12. How does she choose? ________________________________________________________
13. Who is the 13th warrior chosen? _________________________________________________
14. The Vikings dont like the Arabs horse. What do they call it? __________________________
15. Hurry to meet your death before your place is taken. What does that mean? _____________
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16. Who greets the warriors when they reach land after their sea journey? ___________________
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17. What do the warriors find at the farmstead after they see the blood-covered little boy?
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18. What does Herger say that the creatures do? _______________________________________
19. What is the carving the Northmen find? ___________________________________________
20. Why is this carving important? __________________________________________________
21. How does the one-eyed man describe the creatures? ________________________________
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22. What does the Evil turn out to be? ______________________________________________

23. What does the Evil do with their victims? _________________________________________
24. What does the woman want to put on Ahmeds wounds? ______________________________
25. What is Ahmeds reaction? _____________________________________________________
26. Why does Herger pick a fight with the red-haired man? _______________________________
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27. Why does he pretend to be defeated? ____________________________________________
28. When does the Glow Worm attack and what does it come out of? _____________________
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29. What does Ahmed discover about the monster he is battling? ________________________
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30. What does the old woman in the cave tell Buliwyf that the warriors must do to defeat the Eaters
of the Dead? _______________________________________________________________
31. Where do the warriors find the Eaters of the Dead? __________________________________
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32. Describe what they look like. ____________________________________________________
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33. Who does Buliwyf kill in the cave? _______________________________________________
34. Unfortunately, what does the mother do to Buliwyf? _________________________________
35. How do they escape from the Caves? _____________________________________________
36. When Buliwyf says I will die a pauper, what does King Hrothgar tell him? _______________
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37. What does Buliwyf want Ahmed to do for him when he dies? ___________________________
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38. At the last battle, what does Buliwyf do that marks him as a great warrior? ________________
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39. What do the women prepare to do in case the battle is lost? ___________________________
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40. What words do the Northmen say before the last battle? ______________________________
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41. Why do the Eaters of the Dead attack again? _______________________________________
42. What happens when the Leader (the one with the horns of power on his head) is killed during
the last battle? _______________________________________________________________
43. Who killed the leader? _________________________________________________________
44. What happens to Ahmed at the end of the movie?___________________________________