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The far traveler : voyages of a Viking woman Cover Image Book Book

The far traveler : voyages of a Viking woman

Brown, Nancy Marie (author.).

Summary: Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed past 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 with cutting-edge technology and the latest archaeological techniques, and tracing Gudrid's steps on land and in the sagas, author Brown reconstructs a life that spanned--and expanded--the bounds of the then-known world.--From publisher description.

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  • ISBN: 015101440X
  • ISBN: 9780151014408
  • Physical Description: 306 pages : map ; 24 cm.
    print
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: Orlando, Florida : Harcourt, 2007.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-292) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 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.

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Subject: Guðrið Þorbjarnardóttir
Women -- Iceland -- Biography
Women -- Greenland -- Biography
Vikings -- Biography
Sagas
Viking ships
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Iceland
North America -- Discovery and exploration -- Norse
Iceland -- Discovery and exploration -- Norse

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  • 8 of 8 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect.

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Castlegar Public Library 970.013092 THO (Text) 35146001088848 Non-Fiction Volume hold Available -
Fernie Heritage Library 970.013092 BRO (Text) 35136000108333 Adult Non Fic Volume hold Available -
Fort Nelson Public Library 948.02 BRO (Text) BFN057848 Non-Fiction Volume hold Available -
Fort St. John Public Library 970.013092 BRO (Text) BFSJ114733 ADULT Non-Fiction Volume hold Available -
Nelson Public Library 970.013092 BRO (Text) 3514830002556 Adult Non-Fiction Volume hold Available -
Prince Rupert Library 970.013 Brow (Text) 33294002034296 Adult Non-Fiction Volume hold Available -
Quesnel Branch 970.013092 BRO (Text)
Legacy Use Count: 5 		33923004051821 Non-fiction Volume hold Available -
Wells Branch 970.013092 BRO (Text)
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