![]() ![]() 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 archeologist found a Viking longhouse in Newfondland, no one belived that the detalis of Gudrids story were true. ![]() She landed in the New World and lived there for three years, giving birth to a son before sailing home. ![]() The book can be purchased here in the Snorrastofa Bookstore, and in the US at "Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking Woman named Guðríður sailed off the edge of the known world. She has written a very good book about my employe, Snorri Sturlusson, and another one of my favorite books, the story of Guðríður Þorbjarnardóttir. I am a great fan of Nancy Marie Browns books. ![]()
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