The Far Traveler
Women, europe
Norse
Sagas
America, discovery and exploration
Vikings
Excavations (Archaeology)
Women, biography
Discovery and exploration
Travel
New York Times reviewed
Women
Biography
Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed past 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 Newfo…
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