| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
306 p. : map ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-292) and index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Contents |
Prologue: Gudrid the far-traveler -- At sea -- Ransacking the past -- A very stirring woman -- The terror from the North -- The land-taking -- Eirik the Red's green land -- Land of wine or walrus -- The house of the sagas -- The farm of merry noise -- From witch to nun. |
| Subject |
Gudrid Thorbjarnardottir -- Travel.
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North America -- Discovery and exploration -- Norse.
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Iceland -- Discovery and exploration -- Norse.
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Women -- Iceland -- Biography.
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Women -- Greenland -- Biography.
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Vikings -- Biography.
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Sagas.
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Viking ships.
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Excavations (Archaeology) -- Iceland.
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| ISBN |
9780151014408 : $25.00 |
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015101440X |
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