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Author:

Brown, Nancy Marie.

Title:

The far traveler : voyages of a Viking woman / Nancy Marie Brown.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Harcourt,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

306 p. : 1 map ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Gudrid Thorbjarnardottir--Travel.
North America--Norse.--Norse.
Iceland--Norse.--Norse.
Women--Iceland--Biography.
Women--Greenland--Biography.
Vikings--Biography.
Sagas.
Viking ships.
Excavations (Archaeology)--Iceland.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

Summary:

Reconstructs the life of Gudrid, a Viking woman who, according to Icelandic sagas, arrived in the New World some five hundred years before Columbus, spent three years there, and gave birth to a baby, before sailing home.

ISBN:

015101440X
9780151014408

LCCN:

2007006081

Locations:

DRPC413 -- Britt Public Library (Britt)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

DBPE173 -- Clear Lake Public Library (Clear Lake)

VXPE964 -- Decorah Public Library (Decorah)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

AAPF906 -- Ottumwa Public Library (Ottumwa)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)