Freydis (original) (raw)

Freyd�s Eir�ksd�ttir was a Viking woman who sailed to V�nland in the early 11th century. She was an illegitimate daughter of Erik the Red and half sister to Leifur Eir�ksson. She was married to a man named Ehemann �orvar�ur.

Note: the following is from the sagas, and is therefore questionable

Freyd�s was a member of the expedition led by �orfinnur Karlsefni ��r�arson which, after the discovery of V�nland, attempted to make the first European colony there. A year after this expedition she and her husband traveled there again, with Icelanders Helgi and Finnbogi.

Upon arrival in V�nland, the alliance dissolved, and Helgi and Finnbogi built their own separate settlement there. Following a meeting in their camp, Freyd�s told her husband that she had been raped there, and asked him to avenge her. �orvar�ur took his men to the camp and killed the men there; five women survived. Freyd�s, however, was not satisfied, and killed the women with an axe.

Following the incident �orvar�ur and Freyd�s returned to Greenland, and were exiled on account of their actions in V�nland.