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 Gudridâs story were true. Then, in 2001, a team of scientists discovered what may have been this pioneering womanâs 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 Gudridâs steps on land and in the sagas, Nancy Marie Brown reconstructs a life that spannedâand expandedâthe 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.
Categories:
- Travel
- Europe
- Iceland
- Europe
Publisher : Harcourt
Author : Brown, Nancy Marie
Language : English
Edition : First Edition
Published :2007-10-09
Number Of Pages : 320
Binding : hardcover
ISBN-10 : 015101440X
ISBN-13 : 9780151014408
Item weight : 1.2 lb
Dimensions : 1.3 in x 6.5 in x 9.4 in
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