The Far Traveler

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Photos from
The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman
by Nancy Marie Brown





Gokstad Ship
The Gokstad ship in the Viking Ship Museum,
Bygdoy, Norway. Photo by Charles Fergus.

 Arnarstapi
Arnarstapi, where Gudrid grew up c. 985-1000.

Eiriksstadir
Reconstruction of Eirik the Red's house, Iceland.

Brattahlid
Reconstruction of Brattahlid, Greenland.

Thjodhild's church
Reconstruction of a Viking church in Greenland.

 Sandnes
Viking ruins at Sandnes in Greenland.

L'Anse aux Meadows
L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland.

Glaumbaer
The turf-house museum at Glaumbaer, Iceland.

 L'Anse aux Meadows
The reconstructed Viking houses in Newfoundland.

Glaumbaer walls
Walls of a turf house lived in since the 1700s.
Glaumbaer office
Gudrid's longhouse lay buried out the
window of the Glaumbaer museum office.

Deturfed
Then he took the turf off the site and,
with trowels, found the edges of the longhouse walls..

 GPR at Glaumbaer
John Steinberg mapped Gudrid's house with GPR.

Gudrid's house
Flags mark the inside and outside of the longhouse walls.
Map by Jeffery Mathison
Map of Gudrid the Far-Traveler's world, c. 1000 AD, by Jeffery Mathison.


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