The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman

The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman
by Nancy Marie Brown
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Iceland

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 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.

• Rank: #84156 in Books
• Published on: 2008-10-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 7.91" h x .59" w x 5.20" l, .65 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages