Dennis Storhøi

Melchisidek: "He wants to know your name."
Ibn Fahdlan: "My name is Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan Ibn Al Abbas Ibn Rashid Ibn Hamad."
Herger the Joyous: "Eben?"
Ibn Fahdlan: "No, listen, My name is Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan. "Ibn" means "son of"."
Herger the Joyous: "Eben!"

"It's all right, little brother... there are more!"

Herger the Joyous: "Where did you learn our language?"
Ibn Fahdlan: "I listened!"

Herger the Joyous: "When they come, we form a circle in the center of the room, backs to one another."
Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan: "I am not a warrior."
Herger the Joyous: "Very soon, you will be."

Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan: "How can you sleep at a time like this?"
Herger the Joyous: "The All-Father wove the skein of your life a long time ago. Go and hide in a hole if you wish, but you won't live one instant longer. Your fate is fixed. Fear profits a man nothing."

[Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan is given a Viking sword]
Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan: "I cannot lift this."
Herger the Joyous: "Grow stronger."

Herger: "We shall pray for your safe return!"
Ibn Fahdlan: "Pray to whom?"
Herger: "In your land one God may be enough, but here we have need of many. I will pray to all of them for you. Do not be offended!"
Ibn Fahdlan: "I'll be in your debt!"
Herger: "Goodbye, Arab!"
Ibn Fahdlan: "Goodbye, Northman."

[Ibn Fahdlan is offered a mead horn by Herger]
Ibn Fahdlan: "I can taste neither the fermentation of grape, nor of wheat.... what? Why do you laugh?"
Herger: "HONEY! It's made from honey!"