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The far traveler : [online electronic book] voyages of a Viking woman.
TITLE:
The far traveler : [online electronic book] voyages of a Viking woman.
Publication Date:
2008
Summary:
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 sagas suggested it could be.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780547539393