@brittarnhild
I don´t plan this to be a daily blog, though I have enough books that inspire to post daily for a lifetime :-) It might be weekly posts, may be more often, may be less. But now in the beginning I am so excited to have this blog started, I can´t help another blog post already today.
And the book on the menu today is the one I have on my night stand for the moment, The Far Traveler, Voyages of a Viking Woman by Nancy Marie Brown.
I found the book in a bookstore in Reykjavik, Iceland in April, and knew it would be the perfect book for me.
Not an ordinary travel book, like those by Dervla Murphy, Freya Stark or Frances Mayes, where the traveler tells her own story, this one is about Gudrid, an Icelandic woman, a Viking woman, who lived and traveled about 500 years before Columbus. Gudrid is mentioned several times in the Icelandic Sagas, and the author has made it her goal to find out as much as possible about the remarcable woman.
One way of doing this is to travel to Iceland "joining scientists experimenting with cutting-edge technology and the latest archaeological techniques, and tracing Gudrid´s steps on land and in the sagas" (from the back cover of the book)
I have only read a bit more than 50 pages yet, of 264, and I am hooked. The biggest problem though is that I am so dead tired when I go to bed, I only manage a few pages and then I am fast asleep.
The good thing is:
the book will last me a long time :-)
Unfortunately amazon.co.uk wouldn´t let me link to the page of the book though a picture, but try clicking on this link instead.
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The pictures are of me exploring the Waterfalls at Seljaland, on South Iceland
