The far traveler
Subtitle: voyages of a Viking woman
By: Nancy Marie Brown.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harcourt
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Orlando
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780151014408
Subjects: Gudrid Thorbjarnardottir -- Travel; Women -- Iceland -- Biography; Women -- Greenland -- Biography; Sagas; Viking ships; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Iceland; North America -- Discovery and exploration -- Norse; Iceland -- Discovery and exploration -- Norse; Vikings -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Gudrid the far-traveler; title: At sea; title: Ransacking the past; title: A very stirring woman; title: The terror from the north; title: The land taking; title: Eirik the Red's green land; title: Land of wine or walrus; title: The house of the sagas; title: The farm of merry noise; title: From witch to nun.