Event name
DIGITAL* The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman - Sponsored by Vermont Humanities Council
When
Sun 12 / 12 / 2021
2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Who can attend
Open to all
Limited capacity: Registration Closed
Price
FREE
The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman
For information on this presentation and to get the Zoom link to attend, contact Deborah Rawson Memorial Library at program_assistant@drml.org.
According to the medieval Icelandic sagas, a Viking woman came to the New World 500 years before Columbus. Gudrid the Far-Traveler, sister-in-law of the explorer Leif Eiriksson, tried to set up a colony on the shores of the Gulf of St Lawrence around the year 1000. While this story was long thought to be a myth, author Nancy Marie Brown tells how more and more of Gudrid’s story is being proved true by recent archaeological digs in Newfoundland, Greenland, and Iceland.