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]

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  1. ↑ Brown, Nancy Marie (2007). The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman. Orlando: Harcourt. ISBN   978-0-15-101440-8.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ "Interview with Nancy Marie Brown". www.medievalists.net. February 1, 2009.

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