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The Far Traveler
Nancy Marie Brown
其他書名
Voyages of a Viking Woman
出版HMH, 2008-10-06
主題History / Europe / Nordic CountriesHistory / WomenHistory / Europe / MedievalHistory / Expeditions & DiscoveriesSocial Science / Archaeology
ISBN05475393989780547539393
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=aUE9ZFNeCBsC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The remarkable story of Gudrid, the female explorer who sailed from Iceland to the New World a millennium ago.
 
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, no one 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 epic tales suggest 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, The Far Traveler reconstructs a life that spanned—and expanded—the bounds of the then-known world. 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.