Gog and Magog (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Français 24364, fol. 60v)
Our 10th century traveller, Ahmad ibn Fadlan, settles in among the Bulgars, develops a distaste for their fish-oil based food, and is terrified by events in the sky.
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