While Gudrid Thorbjarnardottir also known as Gudrid the Far-Travelled may not be one of the most famous Viking women she certainly is an important one especially for those living on the western side of the Atlantic.

Viking woman named gudrid. What we know of her life story is derived from two Old Norse sagas The Saga of Erik the Red and The Saga of the Greenlanders. Sara Durn Smithsonian March 4 2021. She lived in and explored Newfoundland and the surrounding environs for three years bearing a son before returning home to Iceland.

She was the mother of the first Viking and the. She lived in and explored Newfoundland and the surrounding environs for three years bearing a son. More than 1000 years ago a woman named Gudrid sailed off the edge of the map with her husband and a small crew landing in what the Vikings called Vinland and what is now Canada.

The Saga of the Greenlanders and The Saga of Eirik the Red both tell of events that were passed down orally for a couple hundred years already. Tetapi beberapa ratus tahun sebelum mereka terdapat seorang wanita bernama Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir didakwa telah sampai di benua Amerika seperti diceritakan dalam saga-saga Viking. Sarah Durn Smithsonian March 4 2021.

Gudrid was not asked to go on this voyage says Brown. She lived in and explored Newfoundland and the surrounding environs for. Nama Gudrid disebut dengan jelas dalam dua saga iaitu.

Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir AKA Gudrid the Far-Travelled New World explorer. When considering all the evidence its certainly plausible that a Viking woman named Gudrid existed traveled to the New World and was remarkable enough to warrant being immortalized in the sagas. No one epitomises this heritage better than Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir a Norse explorer known as the far-traveller born on Icelands Snæfellsnes peninsula in the latter part of the 10th century.

The life of a globe-trekking Viking woman named Gudrid was the centerpiece of Browns 2007 nonfiction work The Far Traveler. She lived in and explored Newfoundland and the surrounding environs for three years bearing a son before returning home to Iceland. Voyages of a Viking Woman but the Icelandic sagas the only know.