A big deal is made of Ahmed Ibn Fadlan's religious piety and his devotion to Islam. Several occasions throughout the film show him abstaining from alcohol, at prayer, and attempting to convert Buliwyf and the other North Men to Islam. He is, however, not a very devout man and violates his religion on more than one occasion throughout the film. He has a sexual affair with a married noblewoman (the reason for him being banished in the first place, though in reality he would have been executed), he is also vane, constantly showing off (his jumping horse, his swordsmanship with a smaller, lighter blade, and complaining about his "ruined nose"), and he, likewise, sleeps with another woman, and a non-Muslim at that.
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