Nancy Marie Brown (born 1959) is an American author, having written five non-fiction books. In ''The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman','' she reconstructed the life of
Gudrid (born ca. 980), an Icelandic voyager known through the
Vinland sagas. Her book, ''
Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths'', a ''
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Snorri Sturluson (1179-1241), an Icelandic poet, historian and statesman. In her 2015 book, ''Ivory Vikings, the Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World and the Woman Who Made Them'', she argues that
Margret the Adroit made the
Lewis Chessmen.
Works
* ''A Good Horse Has No Color: Searching Iceland for the Perfect Horse'' (2001)
*''Mendel in the Kitchen: A Scientist's View of Genetically Modified Food'' (with Nina Fedoroff, 2004)
*''The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman '' (2007)
*''The Abacus and the Cross: The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages'' (2010)
*''Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths'' (2012)
*''The Saga of Gudrid the Far-Traveler'' (2015)
*''Ivory Vikings: The Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World and the Woman Who Made Them'' (2015)
*''The Real Valkyrie: The Hidden History of Viking Warrior Women'' (2021)
References
Sources
Nancy Marie Brownauthor web site
External links
On Point, with Tom Ashbrook interviews Nancy Marie Brown on Song Of The Vikings
Living people
21st-century American non-fiction writers
21st-century American women writers
1960 births
American women non-fiction writers
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