Podcasts

Vermont Public Radio. Interview with Neal Charnoff, October 24, 2007: Viking history comes to light in book by Vermont author Nancy Marie Brown.
"500 years before Christopher Columbus, a Viking woman landed in the New World, where she twice tried to establish a colony. This chapter in Viking history comes to light in a new book by Vermont author Nancy Marie Brown. The Far Traveler tells the story of Gudrid, an Icelandic woman whose travels took her to Greenland, Rome and North America. Until recently, Gudrid's adventures have been the subject of myth and legend, only briefly mentioned in the Viking sagas. In The Far Traveler, Brown draws on her research in science, history and archeology to present an illuminating account of Gudrid's travels, and Viking life in the year 1000. VPR's Neal Charnoff spoke with Nancy Marie Brown of East Burke."

http://www.vpr.net/news_detail/77902/

Cornell University. Reading in the Carl A. Kroch Library, November 20, 2007: The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman--Reading by Author Nancy Marie Brown
"In The Far Traveler, Nancy Marie Brown employs her remarkable narrative skill to reconstruct the life of the Icelandic Gudrid, who gave birth to the first known European child in North America 1000 years ago and later, widowed, went on pilgrimage to Rome before retiring to a contemplative life in northern Iceland. The book also weaves archaeology, economics, ecology, and saga literature into an engaging tapestry of the Norse world in which women, no less than men, could be important and sometimes unusual characters. The reading is sponsored by the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, which is the home of Cornell's renowned Fiske Icelandic Collection."

http://www.cornell.edu/video/

University of Minnesota. Reading at the campus bookstore, October 11, 2007: The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman by Nancy Marie Brown
"Using the latest archaeological techniques, Brown unravels the mysteries that surround Gudrid's life and Viking society - a society where women could marry or divorce at will, who ran their households and insisted on sexual freedom. Brown examines why the Viking colonies eventually collapsed as she explores the larger issue of how histories are forgotten, and how our view of the past is shaped by the methods we choose to study it."

http://www.bookstore.umn.edu/genref/podcast.html