![]() ![]() Over the course of the story, she marries three times-all men of her choosing-amasses a ship, a farm, and treasure of her own, and sails to Vinland (modern-day Newfoundland). In the Viking world, it’s all about acquisition and alliance, and Gudrid, an intelligent, independent thinker, is no slouch in these departments. Gudrid, with the artful resourcefulness she displays throughout the book, convinces an unhappy Leif to both rescue them and accept their marriage. When the couple’s ship wrecks on a rocky island, it is her slighted betrothed, Leif Eiriksson, homeward bound after a trading journey, who finds them. ![]() ![]() Instead, she runs away with handsome Einar. The daughter of an Icelandic chieftain, Gudrid has been promised from birth to the son of Eirik the Red. A story inspired by medieval Icelandic sagas tells the life of Gudrid, a Viking woman who lived 1,000 years ago and whose life Brown told for adults in The Far Traveler (2007). ![]()
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