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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.
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.
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Index
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
A
Adam of Bremen, 26, 83–84, 86–87, 196–197, 245
Almquist, Bo, 191
alphabets, 28, 258–259
Althing (meeting of Icelandic chieftains), 112–113, 114, 204, 242, 251
amber, 97, 226, 227
Anderson, J. R. L., 26–27
Anderson, Rasmus B., 170
Andersson, Eva, 223–229, 231–232, 234
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 82, 83–84
anthropology, 26, 81, 113
forensic, 99
archaeology
absorption spectrophotometry in, 96
backhoes and, 51–54, 98, 99
carbon-14 dating methods in, 130, 157–158, 177
diet analysis in, 6, 149–160, 218
DNA analysis in, 6, 81, 99, 101–102
experimental, 12–23, 223–236
GPS grids in, 2, 46–47, 212
graves in. See graves
Greenland ice cap and, 6, 46
ground-penetrating radar (GPR) in, 2, 44–45, 51, 53–54, 55–57, 200–203, 206, 213–214
Icelandic attitudes toward, 43–44, 212, 219–220
midden (garbage pit) studies in, 6, 47, 140, 149–155, 159–160, 177, 191, 201–203
nature of, 5–7, 42–44
permits and, 52
photography in, 2, 212–213
pollen analysis in, 90, 104, 192
ransacking in, 43–44, 210–211
remote-sensing devices in, 2, 5–6, 43–57, 200–203, 206, 208, 213–214
sagas versus, 42–43, 219–220
soil dating in, 6, 45–51, 130, 205, 209, 215, 219
tephra and tephrochronology in, 6, 45–47, 49–51, 99, 200, 205–207, 209, 214
thin-layer chromatography in, 96
tree-ring stud...
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Voyages of Gudrid the Far-Traveler circa 1000–1030
- A Note on the Language
- Gudrid the Far-Traveler
- At Sea
- Ransacking the Past
- A Very Stirring Woman
- The Terror from the North
- The Land-Taking
- Eirik the Red’s Green Land
- Land of Wine or Walrus
- The House of the Sagas
- The Farm of Merry Noise
- From Witch to Nun
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Sources
- Index
- About the Author
- Connect with HMH