The Far Traveler - Nancy Marie Brown

by The Far Traveler- Voyages of a Viking Woman (epub)

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  sheep, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  ship burials, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  ships. See Viking ships

  shoe lasts, [>]

  Sigurdardottir, Sigridur (Sirri), [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Sigurdsson, Gisli, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Sigurdsson, Jon Vidar, [>], [>]–[>]

  silk, [>], [>]–[>]

  silver standard, [>]

  Skagafjord (“Bay of the Headlands”), Iceland, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Drangey, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Glaumbaer. See Glaumbaer (“Farm of Merry Noise”), Iceland

  Keldudalur, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Kolkuos, [>], [>]

  Reynines (Reynistadur or “Rowan Stead”), Iceland, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Skagafjord Folk Museum, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Stora Seyla (“Big Marsh”), [>], [>], [>]

  skáli, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]. See also longhouses

  Skallagrim (“Bald Grim”), [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  skörungur (“very stirring” woman), [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Skraelings (native people), [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  Skuldelev ships, [>]–[>]

  skyr, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  slaves, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Smiley, Jane, [>], [>]

  Snaefellsjokull (“Snow Mountain’s Glacier”), [>]–[>], [>]

  Snorri (Gudrid’s son), [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  birth of, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  at Glaumbaer (“Farm of Merry Noise”), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  marriage of, [>], [>], [>]

  “Snorri’s spade,” [>], [>]

  Snorri of Helgafell, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Snorri Sturluson, [>], [>]

  Snorri Thorbrandsson of Swanford, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Snorri (Viking ship replica), [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  soil dating, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  “solar stone,” [>]

  spindle whorls, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  spinning, [>]–[>]

  St. Brice’s Day massacre, [>]

  Steblin-Kamenskij, M. I., [>], [>]

  Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, [>]

  Steinberg, John, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Steward’s Stone, [>]

  Stong (house in southern Iceland), [>]

  Stora Seyla (“Big Marsh”), [>], [>], [>]

  Straits of Belle Isle, Canada, [>], [>]

  Straumfjord, [>], [>]

  strike-a-lights, [>]–[>]

  Sveigakot, Iceland, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Svein Forkbeard (king of Denmark), [>]–[>], [>]

  Sveinsson, Einar O., [>]

  Swan Fjord, Iceland, [>], [>]–[>]

  Sweden

  Birka, [>], [>]–[>]

  Uppsala, [>]

  Sylvester II, Pope, (Gerbert of Aurillac), [>], [>]

  Tain Bo Cuailnge (Irish epic), [>]

  tapestry, [>], [>]

  teeth, [>]–[>]

  tephra and tephrochronology, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]. See also Mount Hekla, Iceland

  Terror from the North, [>]

  textiles. See cloth; weaving; wool

  Thingvellir (“Meeting Plains”), Iceland, [>], [>]

  Thjodhild’s Church, Brattahlid, Greenland, [>]–[>], [>]

  Thorbjorg Knarrarbringu (“Ship-Breast”), [>], [>], [>]

  Thorbjorn (Gudrid’s son), [>], [>]–[>]

  Thorbjorn Glaum, [>], [>]–[>]

  Thorbjorn Ongul, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Thorbjorn Vilfilsson (Gudrid’s father) Eirik the Red and, [>]–[>]

  as father of Gudrid the Far-Traveler, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Thordarson, Matthias, [>]

  Thorfinn Karlsefni. See Karlsefni (Gudrid’s husband)

  Thorgeir Vifilsson (Gudrid’s uncle), [>]–[>], [>]

  Thorgest the Old (enemy of Eirik the Red), [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Thorgunna of the Hebrides, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Thorlak, Bishop (Gudrid’s great-grandson), [>], [>]

  Thorlaksson, Helgi, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Thorstein Eiriksson (Gudrid’s husband)

  death of, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  marriage to Gudrid, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Sandnes, Greenland, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  as son of Eirik the Red, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Thorstein the Red, [>], [>]

  thread gauge, [>]–[>]

  Thurid, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  Tolkien, J. R. R., [>]

  topsoil, [>]–[>]

  Traustadottir, Ragnheidur, [>], [>]

  tree-ring studies, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Trondheim, Norway, [>], [>]

  trowels, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  trunnels, in Viking ships, [>]

  truth, in Icelandic sagas, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  turf houses, [>]–[>]. See also house building; Glaumbaer (“Farm of Merry Noise”), Iceland

  discovery and excavation of, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  maintaining, [>]–[>]

  timber framing, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  types of turf, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  twill cloth, [>]–[>], [>]

  Uig, Lewis, [>], [>]

  underwater archaeology, [>]

  Unipeds, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Unn the Deep-Minded, [>]–[>], [>]

  and Christianity, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Dales in Iceland and, [>]–[>], [>]

  emigration from Scotland to Iceland, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  as female chieftain, [>], [>], [>]

  grave of, [>]

  Hvamm, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Olaf the White and, [>], [>], [>]

  relationship to Gudrid the Far-Traveler, [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Uppsala, Sweden, [>], [>]

  Valhalla, [>], [>]

  Vebaek, C. L., [>]

  venison, [>], [>]

  Vesteinsson, Orri, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Vifil (Gudrid’s grandfather), [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Vifilsson, Thorbjorn. See Thorbjorn Vilfilsson (Gudrid’s father)

  Vifilsson, Thorgeir. See Thorgeir Vifilsson (Gudrid’s uncle)

  Viking Age, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Vikings. See also Icelandic sagas

  attacks on, [>]–[>]

  in the British Isles, [>], [>]–[>]

  character among, [>], [>]–[>]

  Christianity and. See Christianity

  farming methods of. See farming

  nature of, [>], [>], [>]

  in the New World. See L’Anse aux Meadows; Vinland

  Norse gods, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Old Norse language, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  origins of term, [>]

  raids of, [>], [>]–[>]

  setdement of Iceland, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]. See also Book of Settlements, The

  Viking Ship Museum (Bygdoy, Norway), [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Viking Ship Museum (Roskilde, Denmark), [>]–[>]

  Viking ships. See also navigation

  blown off course, [>]–[>]

  building, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  experimental archaeology and, [>]–[>]r />
  Gokstad ship burial, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  knarr (cargo ship), [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Oseberg ship burial, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  repairing, [>]–[>], [>]

  replicas of, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  ruins of, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

  sailing a ship down, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  ship burials, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  sinking of, [>]–[>], [>]

  Skuldelev ships, [>]–[>]

  travel speed of, [>]–[>]

  Viking tools, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Vinland

  discovery of, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  first historical references to, [>]–[>], [>]

  Gudrid the Far-Traveler in, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  location of, [>], [>]–[>]

  riches of, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  as “Wine Land,” [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Vinland Sagas, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]. See also Saga of Eirik the Red, The; Saga of the Greenlanders, The

  Vinner, Max, [>]–[>]

  virginity, attitudes toward, [>]–[>]

  Virgin Mary, [>]–[>]

  volcanic ash studies, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]. See also Mount Hekla, Iceland

  Wallace, Birgitta, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

  walnuts, black, [>], [>]–[>]

  walnuts, white (butternuts), [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  walrus ivory, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Walton, Penelope, [>], [>]

  Wawn, Andrew, [>]

  weaving, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]. See also cloth; wool

  weaving rooms, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Well of Knowing, [>]

  Well of Weird, [>]

  whales, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  whey, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  William of Malmesbury, [>]–[>]

  William the Bastard (William the Conqueror), [>]

  wind erosion, [>]–[>]

  wine, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Wine Land. See Vinland

  witches, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  women, status of, [>]–[>]

  wool, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Y chromosome, [>]

  Ymir, [>]

  Yngvild (Gudrid’s cousin), [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Zoega, Gudny, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  About the Author

  NANCY MARIE BROWN is the author of A Good Horse Has No Color and Mendel in the Kitchen. She lives in Vermont with her husband, the writer Charles Fergus.