![]() ![]() Some of the better passages in the book are about Brown’s own experience volunteering on a dig in Skagafjörður. Her interest in Iceland dates back to studying Old Norse literature in college. ![]() Indeed, Brown’s background is as a science writer and she is skilled at interviewing scientists. The Far Traveler works best as an intro to the scholars who have tried to reconstruct life in the medieval north through archaeology, genetics, anthropology and literary studies. It puts women’s experiences in the foreground, and it does talk about Guðríður, but it’s not really about her or her voyages. The title and blurb of this book leads you to think it’s about Guðríður Þorbjarnardóttir, the wife of Þorfinnur Karlsefni and mother of Snorri Þorfinnsson, the first European child to be born on the North American continent.īut in fact, The Far Traveler is a very general book about literature, ships, North Atlantic settlement, archaeology, and Christianization in the Viking Age. ![]()
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