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Brown, Nancy Marie.
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Guðrið Þorbjarnardóttir -- Travel.
Women -- Iceland -- Biography.
Women -- Greenland -- Biography.
Vikings -- Biography.
Sagas.
Viking ships.
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Iceland.
North America -- Discovery and exploration -- Norse.
Iceland -- Discovery and exploration -- Norse.
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The far traveler : v...
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The far traveler : voyages of a Viking woman / Nancy Marie Brown.
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Brown, Nancy Marie.
Orlando : Harcourt, c2007.
Subjects
Guðrið Þorbjarnardóttir -- Travel.
Women -- Iceland -- Biography.
Women -- Greenland -- Biography.
Vikings -- Biography.
Sagas.
Viking ships.
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Iceland.
North America -- Discovery and exploration -- Norse.
Iceland -- Discovery and exploration -- Norse.
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0711/2007006081.html
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0803/2007006081-b.html
Electronic Resource
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0803/2007006081-d.html
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0803/2007006081-s.html
ISBN:
9780151014408
015101440X
Description:
306 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Edition:
1st ed.
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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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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Mililani Public Library
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