The far traveler: voyages of a Viking woman
Brown, Nancy Marie, Guðríður þorbjarnardóttir
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. Joining scientists experimenting with cutting-edge technology and the latest archaeological techniques, and tracing Gudrid’s steps on land and in the sagas, Nancy Marie Brown reconstructs a life that spanned—and expanded—the bounds of the then-known world. She also sheds new light on the society that gave rise to a woman even more extraordinary than legend has painted her and illuminates the reasons for its collapse.
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Рік:
2007
Видавництво:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Мова:
english
Сторінки:
306
ISBN 10:
0547539398
ISBN 13:
9780547539393
Файл:
EPUB, 1.06 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2007