In her 2015 book, Ivory Vikings, the Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World and the Woman Who Made Them, she argues that Margret the Adroit made the Lewis Chessmen. Like the ancient legends she recounts, hers is rich and transporting, a true saga. Nancy Marie Brown's absorbing tale of looking for horses in Iceland is that kind of odyssey. Her book, Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths, a Times Literary Supplement 2012 Book of the Year, concerned Snorri Sturluson (1179-1241), an Icelandic poet, historian and statesman. 'The best journeys go two ways: out, into the unknown, and in, to what we might have known all along. 980), an Icelandic voyager known through the Vinland sagas. Five hundred years before Columbus, a Vik. The remarkable story of Gudrid, the female explorer who. In The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman, she reconstructed the life of Gudrid (born ca. The remarkable story of Gudrid, the female explorer who sailed from Iceland to the New World a millennium ago. Still, says Nancy Marie Brown, author of the 2007 biography The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman, Gudrid’s story suggests that Viking women were as courageous and as adventurous. Read The Far Traveler Voyages of a Viking Woman by Nancy Marie Brown available from Rakuten Kobo. Nancy Marie Brown (born 1959) is an American author, having written five non-fiction books.
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