Far Traveler Voyages of a Viking Woman

Name: Far Traveler Voyages of a Viking Woman
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ISBN: 9780156033978

ISBN-10: 0156033976

ISBN-13: 9780156033978

Edition: 2007

Authors: Nancy Marie Brown

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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 Gudrid7;s story were true. Then, in 2001, a team of scientists discovered what may have been this pioneering woman7;s last house, buried under a hay field in Iceland, just where the sagas suggested it could be. Joining scientists experimenting with cutting-edge technology and the latest archaeological techniques, and tracing Gudrid7;s steps on land and…

Book details

List price: $18.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 10/6/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.31" wide x 7.99" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



A note on the language


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