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Gudrid the Wanderer

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The year is 1008. Stand on the Viking knarr with Gudrid and her son Snorri as she looks back at VInland and the New World. Feel the wind snap her cloak pin. Seek through the grass for her spindle whorl. It will be ten centuries before they are found.

First-person living history in song and saga, based on archaeological finds at L'Anse aux Meadows UNESCO World Heritage Site and on the Vinland Sagas.

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1.	Prologue (spoken) 00:33	buy track
2.	Vinland the Good 01:46	buy track
3.	Flashback Intro (spoken) 00:44	buy track
4.	My Mother's Teachings (spoken) 00:56	buy track
5.	Kvaeðið við spuna 02:36	buy track
6.	Thorbjorn and Einar (spoken) 01:32	buy track
7.	Úr þeli þráð að spinna 01:13	buy track
8.	Orm and Halldis (spoken) 01:49	buy track
9.	Vem kan segla 01:41	buy track
10.	The Seeress' Prophecy (spoken) 02:13	buy track
11.	Manaus 01:38	buy track
12.	Völuspá (Edda) 04:07	buy track
13.	Thorir the Fisherman (spoken) 02:25	buy track
14.	Sjóferðabæn 05:20	buy track
15.	Leif the Lucky (spoken) 01:42	buy track
16.	Ó, mín flaskan fríða 01:06	buy track
17.	Thorvald and the Skraelings (spoken) 00:50	buy track
18.	Inuit Kayak Song 01:32	buy track
19.	Gudrid and Thorstein's Wedding (spoken) 01:52	buy track
20.	Drømte mig en drøm 02:27	buy track
21.	Thorstein's Travels and Death (spoken) 02:26	buy track
22.	Drømte mig en drøm reprise 01:54	buy track
23.	Thorfinn Karlsefni (spoken) 01:31	buy track
24.	She Long Honnick Mee 02:38	buy track
25.	Freydis (spoken) 01:59	buy track
26.	Það Mælti Mín Móðir 01:17	buy track
27.	Snorri Thorfinnsson (spoken) 01:29	buy track
28.	Bí bí og blaka 01:40	buy track
29.	Departure from Vinland (spoken) 03:14	buy track
30.	Who Will Follow 02:04	buy track
31.	Epilogue (spoken) 00:58	buy track

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All events in this program are drawn from the Vinland Sagas, two independently written Icelandic manuscripts now in the Arní Magnússon Institute in Reykjavik. The Greenlanders’ Saga is probably earlier and was used in Eirik the Red’s Saga, which features Gudrid more prominently. Current saga scholars place Gudrid’s journey to Vínland ca. 1009-1012 AD.

Gudrid the Wanderer was originally developed in 1991 for a cruise to L’Anse Aux Meadows, Newfoundland. This UNESCO World Heritage site is still today the only verified Norse archaeological site in North America.
Gudrid the Wanderer has been featured in major museum exhibits at the Canadian Museum of History, Mystic Seaport, and the Franklin Institute, at the Dartmouth International Arctic Archaeology Conference, in Viking Heritage Magazine, on cruises from Iceland to Boston, at Scandinavian-American festivals and clubs, and at Gudrid’s homestead of Arnarstapi in Snaefellsness, Iceland.

Learn more at gudridthewanderer.www.lynnoel.com
Follow Gudrid at facebook.com/gudridthewanderer
Contact Lynn Noel at lynnoel@lynnoel.com

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released September 1, 2023

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Crosscurrents Music Boston, Massachusetts

Lynn Noel brings traditional song and heritage arts online to create community. Lynn has a voice of striking clarity and power, equally at home in rhythmic chanteys and flowing ballads.

Lynn is a respected song session leader on both sides of the Atlantic and the producer and host of the Mermaid's Tavern online folk club. She is currently Program Chair of the New England Folk Festival (NEFFA). ... more

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