Scenes with Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan
13 scenes
Skeld the Superstitious Blowhards, the both of you. She probably was some smoke-colored camp girl. [points to Ahmed] Looked like that one's mother. [laughter]
AI Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan
[calmly]
My mother ... was a pure woman, from a noble family. And I, at least, know who my father is, you... pig-eating son of a whore.
[Skeld charges at Ahmed, but Herger stops him and confronts the Arab.]
How? How did you learn our language?
AI Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan
I listened!
AI Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan
"Draw sounds"? [realizing] Yes, I can draw sounds... and I can speak them back.
AI Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan
[writing in the dirt]
"There is only one God, and Mohammad is his prophet".
[later, as Buliwyf and Ahmed land on a beach]
Arab! Speak what I draw! [writes in the sand]
AI Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan
[Ahmed looks at what Buliwyf has written and comprehends what he is after]
"There is only one God, and Mohammad [corrects Buliwyf's writing] is his prophet.
[Buliwyf nods and walks off.]
AI Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan
[Ahmed is given a Viking sword]
I cannot lift this.
AI Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan
[Olga is cleaning his wound]
Ow!
Olga You complain much.
AI Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan
(more quietly)
Ow.
AI Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan
[She applies a swab of ammonia.]
What is that?
Olga Cow urine.
AI Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan
Cow urine?
Olga Boiled down.
AI Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan
No, no. Don't put that filth on me. Water, clean water.
Olga As you wish. Tomorrow the pus will run, and you'll have a fever. [Ahmed relents and lets her put it on]
AI Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan
[Olga inspects his wound]
Ow!
Olga That's a woman's sound.
AI Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan
Do that again and you'll make it.
Olga You'll live.
AI Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan
[Herger kills one of the Prince's henchmen in a sham duel.]
You! You could have killed him at will!
AI Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan
Well, why the deception?
Deception is the point! Any fool can calculate strength. That one has been doing it since we arrived. Now he has to calculate what he can't see.
AI Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan
And fear... what he doesn't know. [Herger makes a head-smacking gesture]
As you say, foolish. And expensive. We will miss Angus tonight; we will miss his sword.
AI Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan
[The Wendol horsemen charge toward Ahmed Ibn Fahdaln, and the Vikings. Buliwyf throws Ahmed a wooden stake.]
What do I do with this?!
Put your foot on it...and stand!
AI Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan
[Herger proffers a drinking horn containing mead.]
I cannot...taste neither the fermentation of grape nor of wheat. [Herger laughs] What? Why do you laugh?
[still laughing]
Honey... It's made from honey!
AI Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan
Have we anything resembling a plan?
Mm-hm. Ride till we find them... and kill them all.
[weakened by poison]
You're wearing that long face for me?
AI Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan
[small smile]
I cannot help it.
I have only these hands. I will die a pauper.
King Hrothgar You will be buried as a king.
A man might be thought wealthy if someone were to... draw the story of his deeds. That they may be remembered.
AI Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan
[Olga looks meaningfully at Ahmed, who already understands what Buliwyf is asking.]
Such a man might be thought wealthy indeed.
'Lo, there do I see my father. 'Lo, there do I see--
--my mother, and my sisters...
'Lo, there do I see the line--
Edgtho the Silent --of my people, back to the beginning.
Weath the Musician 'Lo, they do call to me.
AI Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan
They bid me take my place among them.
In the halls of Valhalla...
AI Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan
Where the brave...
AI Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan
...forever.
We shall make prayers for your safe passage!
AI Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan
Prayers to who?
In your land, one God is perhaps enough, but we have need of many! I will pray to all of them for you! Do not be offended!
AI Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan
I will be in your debt!
AI Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan
Good bye, Northman.
Other characters in The 13th Warrior
