![]() ![]() ![]() 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. 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. Even after archaeologists found a Viking longhouse in Newfoundland, few believed that the details of Gudrid's story were true. ![]() She landed in the New World and lived there for three years, giving birth to a baby before sailing home. Includes bibliographical references (pages -292) and index.įive hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed past the edge of the known world. Iceland - Discovery and exploration - Norse. North America - Discovery and exploration - Norse. The far traveler : voyages of a Viking woman / Nancy Marie Brown. ![]()
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