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  • Brown, Nancy Marie.
     
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    The far traveler : voyages of a Viking woman / Nancy Marie Brown.
    by Brown, Nancy Marie.
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    Orlando : Harcourt, c2007.
    Subjects
  • Guðrið Þorbjarnardóttir -- Travel.
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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.
  •  
  • North America -- Discovery and exploration -- Norse.
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  • Iceland -- Discovery and exploration -- Norse.
  • Electronic Resourcehttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0711/2007006081.html
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    Electronic Resourcehttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0803/2007006081-d.html
    Electronic Resourcehttp://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 LibraryAdult BiographyB Gudrid Thorbjarnardottir BrChecked out04/15/2024Add Copy to MyList


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