Nancy Marie Brown

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]

Works

Her other books are

  • The Abacus and the Cross: The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages (2010)
  • Mendel in the Kitchen: A Scientist's View of Genetically Modified Food (with Nina Fedoroff, 2004)
  • A Good Horse Has No Color: Searching Iceland for the Perfect Horse (2001)

References
  1. Brown, Nancy Marie (2007-01-01). The far traveler: voyages of a Viking woman. Orlando: Harcourt. ISBN 9780151014408.
  2. Brown, Nancy Marie (2012-01-01). Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the making of the Norse myths. ISBN 9780230338845. OCLC 755698694.
  3. Brown, Nancy Marie (2015-01-01). Ivory Vikings: the mystery of the most famous chessmen in the world and the woman who made them. ISBN 9781137279378. OCLC 898418974.
  4. "Interview with Nancy Marie Brown". www.medievalists.net. February 1, 2009.

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