Ebook {Epub PDF} The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman by Nancy Marie Brown

 · If she had ever shared my delusions of peaceful, sunny, blue-sea sailing, surrounded by a crew of handsome men, she would have lost them abruptly on the first of her eight voyages. She knew the killing force of the sea, of weeks at the mercy of the winds, of fog that froze on the sails and rigging, when “hands blue with cold” was not a metaphor and no land, no shelter, was in www.doorway.run description: First Edition.  · Oct. 14, In “The Far Traveler,” Nancy Marie Brown tries to solve the mystery of a beautiful woman named Gudrid who appears in two Icelandic sagas and crossed the Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins. Prologue: 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. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. []) and index. ISBN: X OCLC:

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. Nancy Marie Brown (born ) is an American author, having written five non-fiction books. In The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman, she reconstructed the life of Gudrid (born ca. ), an Icelandic voyager known through the Vinland www.doorway.ru book, Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths, a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, concerned Snorri Sturluson. The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman. by Nancy Marie Brown. With grace and elegance, a story brought back over a thousand years. 2. The Landed Gentry. by Sophy Burnham. Sophy Burnham's extraordinary, courageous, vividly and stylishly written romp through a heavily camouflaged part of America, first published in , is back in print.

If she had ever shared my delusions of peaceful, sunny, blue-sea sailing, surrounded by a crew of handsome men, she would have lost them abruptly on the first of her eight voyages. She knew the killing force of the sea, of weeks at the mercy of the winds, of fog that froze on the sails and rigging, when “hands blue with cold” was not a metaphor and no land, no shelter, was in sight. Prologue: 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. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. []) and index. ISBN: X OCLC: Combine EditionsNancy Marie Brown’s books. Nancy Marie Brown. Average rating: · 2, ratings · reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors. The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman. avg rating — ratings — published — 6 editions. Want to Read.