Nancy Marie Brown

Nancy Marie Brown (born 1960) 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.

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.
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.

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