]–[>]
sheep, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
ship burials, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
ships. See Viking ships
shoe lasts, [>]
Sigurdardottir, Sigridur (Sirri), [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
Sigurdsson, Gisli, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Sigurdsson, Jon Vidar, [>], [>]–[>]
silk, [>], [>]–[>]
silver standard, [>]
Skagafjord (“Bay of the Headlands”), Iceland, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
Drangey, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
Glaumbaer. See Glaumbaer (“Farm of Merry Noise”), Iceland
Keldudalur, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Kolkuos, [>], [>]
Reynines (Reynistadur or “Rowan Stead”), Iceland, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Skagafjord Folk Museum, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Stora Seyla (“Big Marsh”), [>], [>], [>]
skáli, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]. See also longhouses
Skallagrim (“Bald Grim”), [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
skörungur (“very stirring” woman), [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Skraelings (native people), [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
Skuldelev ships, [>]–[>]
skyr, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
slaves, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Smiley, Jane, [>], [>]
Snaefellsjokull (“Snow Mountain’s Glacier”), [>]–[>], [>]
Snorri (Gudrid’s son), [>]–[>], [>], [>]
birth of, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
at Glaumbaer (“Farm of Merry Noise”), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
marriage of, [>], [>], [>]
“Snorri’s spade,” [>], [>]
Snorri of Helgafell, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Snorri Sturluson, [>], [>]
Snorri Thorbrandsson of Swanford, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Snorri (Viking ship replica), [>], [>]–[>], [>]
soil dating, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
“solar stone,” [>]
spindle whorls, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
spinning, [>]–[>]
St. Brice’s Day massacre, [>]
Steblin-Kamenskij, M. I., [>], [>]
Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, [>]
Steinberg, John, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
Steward’s Stone, [>]
Stong (house in southern Iceland), [>]
Stora Seyla (“Big Marsh”), [>], [>], [>]
Straits of Belle Isle, Canada, [>], [>]
Straumfjord, [>], [>]
strike-a-lights, [>]–[>]
Sveigakot, Iceland, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
Svein Forkbeard (king of Denmark), [>]–[>], [>]
Sveinsson, Einar O., [>]
Swan Fjord, Iceland, [>], [>]–[>]
Sweden
Birka, [>], [>]–[>]
Uppsala, [>]
Sylvester II, Pope, (Gerbert of Aurillac), [>], [>]
Tain Bo Cuailnge (Irish epic), [>]
tapestry, [>], [>]
teeth, [>]–[>]
tephra and tephrochronology, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]. See also Mount Hekla, Iceland
Terror from the North, [>]
textiles. See cloth; weaving; wool
Thingvellir (“Meeting Plains”), Iceland, [>], [>]
Thjodhild’s Church, Brattahlid, Greenland, [>]–[>], [>]
Thorbjorg Knarrarbringu (“Ship-Breast”), [>], [>], [>]
Thorbjorn (Gudrid’s son), [>], [>]–[>]
Thorbjorn Glaum, [>], [>]–[>]
Thorbjorn Ongul, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Thorbjorn Vilfilsson (Gudrid’s father) Eirik the Red and, [>]–[>]
as father of Gudrid the Far-Traveler, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Thordarson, Matthias, [>]
Thorfinn Karlsefni. See Karlsefni (Gudrid’s husband)
Thorgeir Vifilsson (Gudrid’s uncle), [>]–[>], [>]
Thorgest the Old (enemy of Eirik the Red), [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
Thorgunna of the Hebrides, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Thorlak, Bishop (Gudrid’s great-grandson), [>], [>]
Thorlaksson, Helgi, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Thorstein Eiriksson (Gudrid’s husband)
death of, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
marriage to Gudrid, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Sandnes, Greenland, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
as son of Eirik the Red, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Thorstein the Red, [>], [>]
thread gauge, [>]–[>]
Thurid, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
Tolkien, J. R. R., [>]
topsoil, [>]–[>]
Traustadottir, Ragnheidur, [>], [>]
tree-ring studies, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Trondheim, Norway, [>], [>]
trowels, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
trunnels, in Viking ships, [>]
truth, in Icelandic sagas, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
turf houses, [>]–[>]. See also house building; Glaumbaer (“Farm of Merry Noise”), Iceland
discovery and excavation of, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
maintaining, [>]–[>]
timber framing, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
types of turf, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
twill cloth, [>]–[>], [>]
Uig, Lewis, [>], [>]
underwater archaeology, [>]
Unipeds, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Unn the Deep-Minded, [>]–[>], [>]
and Christianity, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Dales in Iceland and, [>]–[>], [>]
emigration from Scotland to Iceland, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
as female chieftain, [>], [>], [>]
grave of, [>]
Hvamm, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Olaf the White and, [>], [>], [>]
relationship to Gudrid the Far-Traveler, [>], [>], [>]–[>]
Uppsala, Sweden, [>], [>]
Valhalla, [>], [>]
Vebaek, C. L., [>]
venison, [>], [>]
Vesteinsson, Orri, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Vifil (Gudrid’s grandfather), [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Vifilsson, Thorbjorn. See Thorbjorn Vilfilsson (Gudrid’s father)
Vifilsson, Thorgeir. See Thorgeir Vifilsson (Gudrid’s uncle)
Viking Age, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Vikings. See also Icelandic sagas
attacks on, [>]–[>]
in the British Isles, [>], [>]–[>]
character among, [>], [>]–[>]
Christianity and. See Christianity
farming methods of. See farming
nature of, [>], [>], [>]
in the New World. See L’Anse aux Meadows; Vinland
Norse gods, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Old Norse language, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
origins of term, [>]
raids of, [>], [>]–[>]
setdement of Iceland, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]. See also Book of Settlements, The
Viking Ship Museum (Bygdoy, Norway), [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
Viking Ship Museum (Roskilde, Denmark), [>]–[>]
Viking ships. See also navigation
blown off course, [>]–[>]
building, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
experimental archaeology and, [>]–[>]
Gokstad ship burial, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
knarr (cargo ship), [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
Oseberg ship burial, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
repairing, [>]–[>], [>]
replicas of, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
ruins of, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
ship burials, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
sinking of, [>]–[>], [>]
Skuldelev ships, [>]–[>]
travel speed of, [>]–[>]
Viking tools, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Vinland
discovery of, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
first historical references to, [>]–[>], [>]
Gudrid the Far-Traveler in, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
location of, [>], [>]–[>]
riches of, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
as “Wine Land,” [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Vinland Sagas, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]. See also Saga of Eirik the Red, The; Saga of the Greenlanders, The
Vinner, Max, [>]–[>]
virginity, attitudes toward, [>]–[>]
Virgin Mary, [>]–[>]
volcanic ash studies, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]. See also Mount Hekla, Iceland
Wallace, Birgitta, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
walnuts, black, [>], [>]–[>]
walnuts, white (butternuts), [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
walrus ivory, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Walton, Penelope, [>], [>]
Wawn, Andrew, [>]
weaving, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]. See also cloth; wool
weaving rooms, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Well of Knowing, [>]
Well of Weird, [>]
whales, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
whey, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
William of Malmesbury, [>]–[>]
William the Bastard (William the Conqueror), [>]
wind erosion, [>]–[>]
wine, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Wine Land. See Vinland
witches, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
women, status of, [>]–[>]
wool, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Y chromosome, [>]
Ymir, [>]
Yngvild (Gudrid’s cousin), [>], [>], [>], [>]
Zoega, Gudny, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
About the Author
NANCY MARIE BROWN is the author of A Good Horse Has No Color and Mendel in the Kitchen. She lives in Vermont with her husband, the writer Charles Fergus.