This is the third of our episodes on the Viking explorers to the west, from Erik the Red, who founded settlements in Greenland, to his son, Leif the Lucky, reputedly the first European to set foot in North America, and now Gudrid the Far-Traveller, who would lead a settlement in modern-day Canada, where her son Snorri was born.
Gudrid herself was from the south coast of the Snæfellsnes peninsula, near the base of Snæfellsjökull, a distinctive glacier with a bowl-shaped summit that can be seen from the shores of Reykjavík. Sometimes, it looks like it is floating on the sea, quite alone but also somehow purposeful in how it pushes out.
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| The south coast of Snæfellsnes in autumn (Pics: Kári Gíslason) |
