from http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/review/281036.html
"Told through the eyes of a young Arab ambassador Ahmahd
ibn Fahdalan (Antonio Banderas) this is basically a retelling
of one of literature's classic epics, Beowulf. Fahadalan is
banished from his homeland for loving the wrong woman. On his journeys he
meets up with some Norsemen and joins their encampment. "