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Voyages of a Viking Woman
Harcourt
October 2007
On Sale: October 9, 2007
320 pages
ISBN: 015101440X
EAN: 9780151014408
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
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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