Nancy Marie Brown
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Nancy Marie Brown (born 1959) is an American author, having written five non-fiction books. In The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman[1], 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,[2] a Times Literary Supplement 2012 Book of the Year, concerned 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,[3] she argues that Margret the Adroit made the Lewis Chessmen.[4]
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
- ^ Brown, Nancy Marie (2007). The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman. Orlando: Harcourt. ISBN 978-0-15-101440-8.
- ^ Brown, Nancy Marie (2012). Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the Making of the Norse Myths. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-230-33884-5. OCLC 755698694.
- ^ Brown, Nancy Marie (2015). Ivory Vikings: The Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World and the Woman Who Made Them. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-1-137-27937-8. OCLC 898418974.
- ^ "Interview with Nancy Marie Brown". www.medievalists.net. February 1, 2009.
Sources
- Nancy Marie Brown author web site
External links
- On Point, with Tom Ashbrook interviews Nancy Marie Brown on Song Of The Vikings
- Wall St. Journal, December 13, 2012, The Poet King Of Iceland
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