Eivör Pálsdóttir

The year is 2038. All of the glaciers have melted and the country is split into islands, but out of the melted glaciers emerge magical beasts.

When she died around 1050 AD, a littleknown Viking explorer had become the most traveled woman of the Middle Ages. She had sailed across the Atlantic Ocean eight times and her travels extended from Iceland to Greenland, North America, Scandinavia, the British Isles, through Europe, and all the way to the Vatican in Rome. She was rescued by Leif Erikson from the shipwreck that earned him the nickname Leif the Lucky. Her name was Gudrídur Thorbjarnardóttir, aka the Far Traveller.

A documentary about the Icelandic poet Jónas Hallgrímsson