A Muslim ambassador exiled from his homeland, Ahmad ibn Fadlan finds himself in the company of Vikings. While the behavior of the Norsemen initially offends ibn Fadlan, the more cultured outsider grows to respect the tough, if uncouth, warriors. During their travels together, ibn Fadlan and the Vikings get word of an evil presence closing in, and they must fight the frightening and formidable force, which was previously thought to exist only in legend.
A horse was killed after getting badly injured. A wire had sliced through the horse’s tendons and an artery. It was called an "acceptable industrial accident", but people who worked on set have said the cause was negligence.
There are no explicit words, but the men tease each other often. The worse is probably at one point one calls another “a son of a w****” that happens when they are sitting around a fire early on in the movie.