The young woman’s screams were drowned out by the sound of drums. No older than her teens, she had been drugged and raped before being tied down and strangled by four men, while repeatedly stabbed by the older woman in charge.
This was the scene in perhaps the most famous accounts of life among the Vikings, written by a traveller and diplomat called Ahmad
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