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The year is 1008. Stand on the deck of the Viking knarr with Gudrid and her son Snorri as she looks back at her turf-roofed house. Feel the wind whip her cloak where she has lost its pin in the meadows of Newfoundland. Seek through her eyes through the tall grass where, in her haste to catch the tide, she has dropped her spindle whorl. On that stone spindle she spun three wedding dresses, square woolen sails to cross the icy sea, shrouds for her three sailor husbands, and the swaddlings for the first European child in the New World. But Gudrid’s colony has failed, and its thread lies broken in the grass. Her ring-headed pin and spindle whorl are lost to her, and to history. It will be ten centuries before they are found.

Where was Leif Ericsson’s fabled Vinland? What did the New World look like to the explorers of a thousand years ago? Relive the saga of Gudrid Thorbjørnsdottír, sister-in law of Leif Eiriksson, wife of Icelandic merchant Thorfinn Karlsefni, and colonist of Vinland the Good. This enthralling retelling of traditional Icelandic saga in song skilfully interweaves Icelandic sagas with medieval poetry and Scandinavian music in the oral tradition. Celebrate the second millennium of adventurous women with a uniquely North American perspective on Norse exploration of the New World.

Lynn Noel is a co-founder of the AFTerHours Adult Folktale Telling Series and an award-winning author, singer, storyteller, and living history interpreter who tours regionally and internationally. Lynn’s enthralling storytelling series has been featured at NSN Sharing the Fire, Mystic Seaport, the Franklin Institute, the Vermont Humanities Council, the Folklore Society of Greater Washington, the Canadian Museum of History, the Toronto Storytelling Festival, and Liereliet Maritime Festival in the Netherlands.