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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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Main Author: Brown, Nancy Marie
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Orlando : Harcourt, c2007.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Gudrid Thorbjarnardottir > Travel.
North America > Discovery and exploration > Norse.
Iceland > Discovery and exploration > Norse.
Women > Iceland > Biography.
Women > Greenland > Biography.
Vikings > Biography.
Sagas > Translations into English.
Viking ships.
Excavations (Archaeology) > Iceland.
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Table of 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.

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