The far traveler : voyages of a Viking woman / Nancy Marie Brown.
Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed past the edge of the known world. She landed in the New World and lived there for three years, giving birth to a baby before sailing home. Or so the Icelandic sagas say. Even after archaeologists found a Viking longhouse in Newfoundland, few believed that the details of Gudrid's story were true. Then, in 2001, a team of scientists discovered what may have been this pioneering woman's last house, buried under a hay field in Iceland, just where the sagas suggested it could be. Joining scientists with cutting-edge technology and the latest archaeological techniques, and tracing Gudrid's steps on land and in the sagas, author Brown reconstructs a life that spanned--and expanded--the bounds of the then-known world.--From publisher description.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780151014408
- ISBN: 015101440X
- Physical Description: 306 pages : map ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: Orlando : Harcourt, [2007]
- Copyright: ©2007
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-292) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Prologue: Gudrid the far-traveler -- At sea -- Ransacking the past -- A very stirring woman -- The terror from the North -- The land-taking -- Eirik the Red's green land -- Land of wine or walrus -- The house of the sagas -- The farm of merry noise -- From witch to nun.
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- Guðrið Þorbjarnardóttir > Travel.
Women > Iceland > Biography.
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Excavations (Archaeology) > Iceland.
Women.
Womyn.
North America > Discovery and exploration > Norse.
Iceland > Discovery and exploration > Norse. - Genre:
- Sagas.
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