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Book Review of The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman

The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman
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This book was a little hard to read. The author refers to the sagas a lot and includes a lot of archaeology, but it doesn't flow along easily like a nice story. You had to really concentrate on all the names and places etc because they are so foreign. But I felt I learned a lot about Greenland and Iceland and the settlers there, which I had known nothing about previously. It also clarified for me the things I've heard about Leif Eiriksson. My only disappointment was that I thought it would be more like the chronological story (a true story, not fiction) of the woman in the title and it wasn't exactly that, but still a very good, detailed book.