Note: due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this talk will only be offered online, via Zoom. Advance registration is required for this event. 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.
