The 13th Warrior Film Questions
Answer each question on your own paper.
1. What is Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan’s original occupation?
2. Why is Ahmed sent away? What job does the Caliph give Ahmed?
3. What is Ahmed’s home? (look at the map)
4. Why won’t the Northman king speak to Ahmed? Who is the new king?
5. Describe the Northman funeral ceremony.
6. Why does the boy stand on the bow of the ship?
7. What does Ahmed seem to think of the Northmen’s washing habits?
8. What is the message the boy brings to the warriors?
9. What is the Angel of Death? What does the Angel of Death tell Buliwyf?
10. Why must Ahmed go with the Northmen?
11. Who greets the warriors when they reach land after their sea journey?
12. What do the warriors find at the farmstead after they see the blood-covered little boy?
13. What does Herger say that the creatures do? What does he name the creatures?
14. What is the carving the Northmen find? Why is this important?
15. Write the description the one-eyed man gives of the creatures.
16. What is Herger’s response when Ahmed asks him how he can sleep at a time like this? What does
this response tell you about Herger’s character?
17. What does Olga put on Ahmed’s wounds. What is his reaction?
18. Why does Herger pick a fight with the red-haired man? Why does he pretend to be defeated?
19. What does the look-out see from his perch in the tree?
20. What does Ahmed see that this “creature” really is?
21. What does Ahmed discover about the “monster” he is battling?
22. What does the old woman tell Buliwyf that the warriors must do to defeat the Eaters of the Dead?
23. Where do the warriors find the Eaters of the Dead? Describe the Eaters of the Dead.
24. What important Eater of the Dead does Buliwyf kill at this point in the film? What event in Beowulf
corresponds with this scene?
25. How do the remaining warriors escape the Eaters of the Dead?
26. When Buliwyf says, “I will die a pauper,” what does King Hrothgar tell him?
27. What does Buliwyf want Ahmed to do after Buliwyf dies?
28. Why do the Eaters of the Dead attack again?
29. Why do the Eaters of the Dead retreat?
30. What causes Buliwyf’s illness and death?
31. What happens to Ahmed?
32. Who represents Grendel in the film?