Friday, January 7, 2011

Funeral of the Rus

Since reading Ibn Fadlan's Risala for the second time, I cannot get the following chant out of my head, "The Rus, the Rus, the Rus is on fire! We don't need to water let the mother-f-er burn!" I may never look at a Viking burial the same.

1 comment:

  1. ... especially entertaining if imagined with a heavy Russian accent.

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