Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook. Nancy Marie Brown, author of the newly published, 'The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman' appeared in Kroch Library Nov. 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. 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. 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. Even after archaeologists found a Viking longhouse in Newfoundland, no one believed that the details of Gudrid’s story were true. She landed in the New World and lived there for three years, giving birth to a baby before sailing home. Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed off the edge of the known world.
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