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: | 9780156033978 |
Publisher: | HMH Books |
Imprint: | Mariner Books |
Pub date: | 06 Oct 2008 |
Edition: | First Edition edition |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 320 |
Weight: | 259g |
Height: | 201mm |
Width: | 132mm |
Spine width: | 15mm |