The far traveler : voyages of a Viking woman / Nancy Marie Brown.
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Brown, Nancy Marie, 1959- (författare)
- ISBN 0156033976
- 1st Harvest ed.
- Publicerad: Orlando, Florida : Harvest Books Harcourt, 2008
- Engelska 306 pages
Innehållsförteckning
Sammanfattning
Ämnesord
Stäng
- Prologue: Gudrid the far-traveler -- At sea -- Ransacking the past -- A very stirring woman -- The terror from the North -- The land-taking -- Eirik the Red's green land -- Land of wine or walrus -- The house of the sagas -- The farm of merry noise -- From witch to nun.
- 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, few 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--P. [4] of cover.
Ämnesord
- Vikingar (sao)
- Vikingatiden (sao)
- Utgrävningar (sao)
- Viking ships. (LCSH)
- Women -- Iceland -- Biography. (LCSH)
- Excavations (Archaeology) -- Iceland. (LCSH)
- Discovery and exploration, Norse. (fast)
- Excavations (Archaeology) (fast)
- Vikings. (fast)
- Women. (fast)
- Excavations (Archaeology) (LCSH)
- Vikings (LCSH)
- Nordamerika (sao)
- Island (sao)
- Grönland (sao)
- Amerika (kontinent) (sao)
- North America -- Discovery and exploration -- Norse. (LCSH)
- Iceland -- Discovery and exploration -- Norse. (LCSH)
- Greenland. (fast)
- Iceland. (fast)
- North America. (fast)
Genre
- Biography. (fast)
- Sagas. (lcgft)
- Biography.
Personnamn
- Guðrið Þorbjarnardóttir -- Travel.
- Guðrið Þorbjarnardóttir.
Indexterm och SAB-rubrik
- Kb.2 Historia: Norden: forntiden till ca 1050
Klassifikation
- DL65 (LCC)
- 970.013092 (DDC)
- Kb.2 (kssb/8)
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