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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Longships and Sod Houses: A Thousand-Year Journey from Viking Iceland to the Dakota Plains

Longships and Sod Houses: A Thousand-Year Journey from Viking Iceland to the Dakota Plains

Goodman, Gary

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralScandinavian History

Publisher Price: $24.95

PREORDER - Expected ship date November 24, 2026

ISBN10: 1517922151
ISBN13: 9781517922153
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: Nov 24 2026
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.56
Language: English

A direct descendant of a tenth-century Viking marauder traces his lineage from medieval Iceland to the Dakota plains

Gary Goodman first heard that his 24x great-grandfather was a tenth-century Viking pirate and mercenary at a family reunion, when a cousin told him that they were the direct descendants of an Icelandic poet and cold-blooded killer named Egil Skallagrímsson. Also known as Egil the Bastard, Goodman's ancestor was the subject of Egil's Saga, one of the great Icelandic epics of the early Middle Ages. Spurred by this revelation of his family's lineage, Goodman set out to discover the route his forefathers had traveled from medieval Iceland to the North Dakota plains in the later 1800s.

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