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It 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. The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman, Harcourt (Orlando, FL), 2007. The remarkable story of Gudrid, the female explorer who sailed from Iceland to the New World a millennium ago. Read millions of eBooks and audiobooks on the web, iPad, iPhone and Android. Joining scientists experimenting with cutting-edge technology and the latest archaeological techniques, and tracing Gudrid's steps on land and in the sagas, The Far Traveler reconstructs a life that spanned-and expanded-the bounds of the then-known world. Read The Far Traveler by Nancy Marie Brown with a free trial. It’s a fascinating tale of Gudrid the far traveler, an Icelandic woman during the Viking Age. 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 epic tales suggest it could be. Even after archaeologists found a Viking longhouse in Newfoundland, no one believed that the details of Gudrid's story were true. Five hundred years before Columbus, a Vik. She landed in the New World and lived there for three years, giving birth to a baby before sailing home. Sample The Far Traveler Voyages of a Viking Woman By: Nancy Marie Brown Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins 5.0 (1 rating) Try for 0. The remarkable story of Gudrid, the female explorer who sailed from Iceland to the New World a millennium ago.

The remarkable story of Gudrid, the female explorer who sailed from Iceland to the New World a millennium ago.įive hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed off the edge of the known world.