Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed off 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, no one 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 experimenting with cutting-edge technology and the latest archaeological techniques, and tracing Gudrid’s steps on land and in the sagas, Nancy Marie Brown reconstructs a life that spanned—and expanded—the bounds of the then-known world. She also sheds new light on the society that gave rise to a woman even more extraordinary than legend has painted her and illuminates the reasons for its collapse.
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The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman
ISBN-10: 0156033976
ISBN-13 : 978-0156033978
Publisher : Mariner Books; First edition (October 6, 2008)
Language : English
Paperback: 320 pages
Reading Age : None
Dimensions : 5.31 x 0.79 x 8 inches
Item Weight : 8.8 ounces
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