The Far Traveler - Nancy Marie Brown (38 page)

as father of Gudrid the Far-Traveler,
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Thordarson, Matthias,
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Thorfinn Karlsefni.
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Karlsefni (Gudrid’s husband)

Thorgeir Vifilsson (Gudrid’s uncle),
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Thorgest the Old (enemy of Eirik the Red),
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Thorgunna of the Hebrides,
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Thorlak, Bishop (Gudrid’s great-grandson),
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Thorlaksson, Helgi,
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Thorstein Eiriksson (Gudrid’s husband)

death of,
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marriage to Gudrid,
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Sandnes, Greenland,
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as son of Eirik the Red,
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Thorstein the Red,
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thread gauge,
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Thurid,
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Tolkien, J. R. R.,
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topsoil,
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Traustadottir, Ragnheidur,
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tree-ring studies,
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Trondheim, Norway,
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trowels,
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trunnels, in Viking ships,
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truth, in Icelandic sagas,
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turf houses,
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See also
house building; Glaumbaer (“Farm of Merry Noise”), Iceland

discovery and excavation of,
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maintaining,
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timber framing,
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types of turf,
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twill cloth,
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Uig, Lewis,
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underwater archaeology,
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Unipeds,
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Unn the Deep-Minded,
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and Christianity,
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Dales in Iceland and,
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emigration from Scotland to Iceland,
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as female chieftain,
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grave of,
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Hvamm,
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Olaf the White and,
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relationship to Gudrid the Far-Traveler,
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Uppsala, Sweden,
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Valhalla,
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Vebaek, C. L.,
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venison,
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Vesteinsson, Orri,
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Vifil (Gudrid’s grandfather),
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Vifilsson, Thorbjorn.
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Thorbjorn Vilfilsson (Gudrid’s father)

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

Viking Age,
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Vikings.
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Icelandic sagas

attacks on,
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in the British Isles,
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character among,
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Christianity and.
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Christianity

farming methods of.
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farming

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

Norse gods,
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Old Norse language,
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origins of term,
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raids of,
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setdement of Iceland,
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Viking Ship Museum (Bygdoy, Norway),
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Viking Ship Museum (Roskilde, Denmark),
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Viking ships.
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blown off course,
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building,
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experimental archaeology and,
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Gokstad ship burial,
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knarr
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Oseberg ship burial,
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repairing,
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replicas of,
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ruins of,
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sailing a ship down,
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ship burials,
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sinking of,
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Skuldelev ships,
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travel speed of,
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Viking tools,
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Vinland

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first historical references to,
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Gudrid the Far-Traveler in,
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location of,
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riches of,
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as “Wine Land,”
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Vinland Sagas,
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See also Saga of Eirik the Red, The; Saga of the Greenlanders, The

Vinner, Max,
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virginity, attitudes toward,
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Virgin Mary,
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volcanic ash studies,
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See also
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Wallace, Birgitta,
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walnuts, black,
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walnuts, white (butternuts),
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Walton, Penelope,
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Wawn, Andrew,
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weaving,
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cloth; wool

weaving rooms,
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Well of Knowing,
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Well of Weird,
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whey,
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William of Malmesbury,
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William the Bastard (William the Conqueror),
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wine,
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Wine Land.
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witches,
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women, status of,
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wool,
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Y chromosome,
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Yngvild (Gudrid’s cousin),
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N
ANCY
M
ARIE
B
ROWN
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.