"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 ...
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"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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The publisher of this book submitted it for the Science Writing Award of the American Institute of Physics. Why I'm not sure. The book does not deal directly with physics nor covers much science. Though it is subtitled "Voyages of a Viking Woman" it is not a travelogue nor is it really a biography of a woman. The author uses a woman who is in some of the Norse Sagas as a thread to discuss 'Viking' history as it relates to Iceland,Greenland and the coast of North America. Dr. Brown discusses elements of Viking society drawn from the Sagas as she describes visits to archeological sites and her participation in an archeological dig. To the various categories mentioned on the back of the title page, I would add literary criticism.
