Nancy Marie Brown


Nancy Marie Brown is an American author, having written five non-fiction books. In The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman', she reconstructed the life of Gudrid, an Icelandic voyager known through the Vinland sagas. Her book, ', a Times Literary Supplement 2012 Book of the Year, concerned Snorri Sturluson, 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, she argues that Margret the Adroit made the Lewis Chessmen.

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