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Jiang hypothesizes that the sacrificed slave girl in Ibn Fadlan's funeral account was the deceased chieftain's lover or quasi-wife, not an ordinary enslaved woman.
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Slave Girl
Jiang hypothesizes that the sacrificed slave girl in Ibn Fadlan's funeral account was the deceased chieftain's lover or quasi-wife, not an ordinary enslaved woman.
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"They asked for a human sacrifice and a slave girl volunteers. Volunteers. Okay? Clearly she didn't volunteer but she volunteers. And let's see what..."
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"Why? Okay. Here's the logic. Remember the Iliad. Okay? In the Iliad the entire story begins with a problem. The problem is that Agamemnon..."
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"...else in the world but you must return your girl your slave girl. And Achilles gets so angry at this that he refuses to..."
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"...the Trojans to let me on their ship and be a slave girl, okay? So it is a complete fall of a queen. Okay,..."
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"She's seriously considering being a slave girl if it just means being near Aeneas. And ultimately, she decides, no, my only option is to..."
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"...off the Iliad. So Agamemnon says to Achilles, Give me your slave girl and get out of here, okay? And Achilles says, Screw you,..."
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"...okay I don't get it now because if in fact the slave girl is the chieftain's favorite mistress and if this slave girl does..."
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"Okay? And so the slave girl will give you one final gift and it's most the greatest treasure that I can possibly give you..."
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"...Um so let's continue. Okay? In the afternoon they moved the slave girl to something that looked like a door frame where she was..."
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"...master in paradise. Okay? So what this is is she the slave girl who is not who is not part of the community. What..."
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"...doing that. They are reliving mythologies. Alright. Let's continue. Thereafter the slave girl was taken away to the ship. She removed her bracelets and..."
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"...a script in place and meaning that the chieftain and the slave girl and the old woman all discussed this beforehand. Okay? That's the..."
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