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 ...
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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 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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Very Good- in Very Good- jacket. First American Edition Very Good+ Hardcover Very Good-Dust Jacket. NOT a library copy. Price intact. NO writing in book NO signatures. The only flaws are some small creases and rough usage to the dust jacket but NO chips. See our Scans. Clean 306 pp. First Edition stated. True story of a liberated Viking woman, 'Gudrid' She headed a crew searching for Vinland and gave birth while nursing with her Viking crew. Great First Edition Bargain.
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Very Good in Good jacket. Harcourt, 2007. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Clean unopened copy in bright jacket. Jacket with closed tear at spine edge and some ink offset on inner side..
The publisher of this book submitted it for the Science Writing Award of the American Institute of Physics. Why I'm not sure. The book does not deal directly with physics nor covers much science. Though it is subtitled "Voyages of a Viking Woman" it is not a travelogue nor is it really a biography of a woman. The author uses a woman who is in some of the Norse Sagas as a thread to discuss 'Viking' history as it relates to Iceland,Greenland and the coast of North America. Dr. Brown discusses elements of Viking society drawn from the Sagas as she describes visits to archeological sites and her participation in an archeological dig. To the various categories mentioned on the back of the title page, I would add literary criticism.