The Far Traveler Voyages of a Viking Woman
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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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780151014408 |
Publisher: | HMH Books |
Imprint: | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pub date: | 09 Oct 2007 |
Edition: | 1st Edition |
DEWEY: | 970.013092 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 306 |
Weight: | 562g |
Height: | 233mm |
Width: | 162mm |
Spine width: | 27mm |