Description by Ahmed Ibn-Fozlan (an eye-witness) of the Ceremonies attending the Incremation of the Dead Body of a Norse Chief, written in the early part of the Tenth Century. Translated from Holmboe's Danish Version of the Arabic Original, with Notes on the Origin of Cremation, and its Continuance

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