The far traveler voyages of a Viking woman
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 Newfo...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Orlando :
Harcourt,
c2007.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 306 p. : map ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-292) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780151014408 015101440X |
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