She landed in the New World and lived there for three years, giving birth to a baby before sailing home. "Brown's enthusiasm is infectious as she re-teaches us our history." ?The Boston Globeįive hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed off the edge of the known world. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. 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. 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.
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. 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 Viking woman named Gudrid sailed off the edge of the known world.
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