Even seemingly inconsistent things, such as the strange mix of accents among the North Men, would have been accurate to the time due to the advanced trade and travel networks that the Nordic people had established. The filming location of British Columbia serves as an accurate substitute for the Scandinavian wilderness. Though the North Men are first depicted as violent and unclean, as the film goes on they are revealed to be intelligent and sophisticated. In spite of some geographic and armament inaccuracies, to this day it is one of the most grounded and honest depictions of ancient Norse culture in mainstream cinema.
There are some points, however, where the film hit the nail on the proverbial head.
It won’t be winning any historical accuracy awards, for many reasons. The 13th Warrior, and its source material, sit solidly in the genre of historical fan fiction. Michael Crichton The 13th Warrior, 1999 © Buena Vista Pictures Faithful to History “I’m quite pleased with the movie ( 13th Warrior), which I think captures the feeling of the novel very well.” The author himself said this about the film: Though changes were definitely made, The 13th Warrior would become one of the truest adaptations of a Crighton novel. “The short version is, I wrote Eaters of the Dead on a bet that I could make an entertaining story out of Beowulf.”Ĭrichton was heavily involved in the project, even stepping in to direct when the studio became unhappy with the credited director John McTiernan. A novel that, according to his official website, Crighton admitted he wrote on a bet. The film is based on the novel Eaters Of the Dead. The 13th Warrior is a notable exception to this unfortunate trend. Whether it be a masterpiece of movie magic or a mangled cinematic mess, the film adaptations of Crichton’s novels have rarely stuck to the author’s vision. Today it can be difficult to separate the author, Michael Crichton, from the many films that bare his name. The 13th Warrior, 1999 © Buena Vista Pictures Faithful to the Source
Ahmad, who is neither a warrior nor an adventurer, is suddenly swept up in a world that he does not understand, fighting a foe that he isn’t even sure he believes exists. In his travels he encounters a group of nordic traders and, amid a particularly intense pagan ritual, is involuntarily recruited to go with them on a dangerous mission against an ancient enemy.
We are first introduced to the protagonist Ahmad, a Muslim Arabian nobleman, exiled from his homeland. Both the film and the novel it is based on merge two historically important texts, the Old English epic poem Beowulf and Ahmad ibn Fadlan’s real-life account of the Volga Vikings.
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