Nancy Marie Brown Explained

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, ,^[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)

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

Notes and References

1. Book: Brown, Nancy Marie. The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman. 2007. Harcourt. Orlando. 978-0-15-101440-8.
2. Book: Brown, Nancy Marie. Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the Making of the Norse Myths. 2012. Palgrave Macmillan. New York. 978-0-230-33884-5. 755698694.
3. Book: Brown, Nancy Marie. Ivory Vikings: The Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World and the Woman Who Made Them. 2015. St. Martin's Press. New York. 978-1-137-27937-8. 898418974.
4. News: Interview with Nancy Marie Brown . February 1, 2009 . www.medievalists.net.