Around 1000 AD, Viking explorers who reached North America brought back more than timber and tales. Genetic studies reveal that a Native American woman journeyed back with them to Iceland. Her unique lineage, passed quietly through generations, survived for nearly a thousand years before being rediscovered by modern DNA research. This astonishing link proves that contact between the Old and New Worlds happened centuries before Columbus, and that her story lived on, written not in words, but in g