| Titre : | The far traveler : voyages of a Viking woman | | Type de document : | texte imprimé | | Auteurs : | Nancy Marie Brown (19..-....), Auteur | | Editeur : | Orlando : Harvest Books Harcourt | | Année de publication : | 2007 | | Importance : | 1 vol. (306 p.) | | Présentation : | carte., couv. ill. en coul. | | Format : | 21 cm | | ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-15-603397-8 | | Langues : | Anglais (eng) | | Mots-clés : | Biography Scandinavian Literature | | Index. décimale : | 920.72 Femmes célèbres | | Résumé : | 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. Joining scientists experimenting with cutting-edge technology and the latest archaeological techniques, and tracing Gudrid’s steps on land and in the sagas, Nancy Marie Brown reconstructs a life that spanned—and expanded—the bounds of the then-known world. She 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.
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The far traveler : voyages of a Viking woman [texte imprimé] / Nancy Marie Brown (19..-....), Auteur . - Orlando : Harvest Books Harcourt, 2007 . - 1 vol. (306 p.) : carte., couv. ill. en coul. ; 21 cm. ISBN : 978-0-15-603397-8 Langues : Anglais ( eng) | Mots-clés : | Biography Scandinavian Literature | | Index. décimale : | 920.72 Femmes célèbres | | Résumé : | 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. Joining scientists experimenting with cutting-edge technology and the latest archaeological techniques, and tracing Gudrid’s steps on land and in the sagas, Nancy Marie Brown reconstructs a life that spanned—and expanded—the bounds of the then-known world. She 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.
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