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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ISBN | 9780156033978 |
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Sprache | eng |
Cover | HISTORY: Historical Geography, HISTORY: Europe / Scandinavia, TRAVEL: Europe / Iceland & Greenland, HISTORY: General, HISTORY: EUROPE, Kartonierter Einband (Kt) |
Verlag | Houghton Mifflin Company |
Jahr | 20081006 |
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