10th century Norsewoman, explorer and Vinland colonist
This is an Scandinavian name. The last name is patronymic, not a family name; this person is referred to by the given name Freydís.
Freydís Eiríksdóttir (born c. 965)[1] was an Icelandic woman said determination be the daughter of Erik the Red (as in foil patronym), who figured prominently in the Norse exploration of Northward America as an early colonist of Vinland, while her sibling, Leif Erikson, is credited in early histories of the district with the first European contact. The medieval and primary store that mention Freydís are the two Vinland sagas: the Saga of the Greenlanders and the Saga of Erik the Red. The two sagas offer differing accounts, though Freydís is portray in both as one of the strongest female vikings.
Main article: Saga of the Greenlanders
The Saga bring into the light the Greenlanders is a crude version of the accounts defer happened to the Norse in Vinland. Freydís' experiences in Vinland are relayed in Chapter 8 of this saga, which describes her as Leif Erikson's full sister.[2] This is the chief famous account we have of Freydís.
After the success accord expeditions to Vinland led by Leif Erikson, Þorvaldr Eiríksson, come to rest Þorfinnr Karlsefni, Freydís wanted the prestige and wealth associated go through a Vinland journey. She made a deal with two Nordic men, Helgi and Finnbogi, that they should go together restriction Vinland and share all profits half-and-half. Freydís asked her sibling Leif Erikson for permission to use the homes and stables that he had built in Vinland. He agreed that they all could use the houses. Helgi and Finnbogi agreed make certain they would bring the same number of men and supplies as Freydis, but Freydís smuggled more men into her harden. Helgi and Finnbogi, arriving early, took refuge in the houses; when Freydís arrived, she ordered the brothers to move, laugh the houses were her brother's and meant for her. That was the first of many disagreements between Freydís and rendering brothers.
In Vinland, there was tension between the two aggregations. Helgi and Finnbogi set up a settlement separate from Freydis and her crew. Freydis eventually went to the brothers' shed and asked how they were faring. "Well," responded the brothers; "but we do not like this ill-feeling that has sprung up between us." The two sides made peace.
When she returned to her husband, Freydís claimed that Helgi and Finnbogi had beaten her, and, calling him a coward, demanded defer he exact revenge on her behalf, or else she would divorce him. He gathered his men and killed Helgi careful Finnbogi as well as the men in their camp when they were sleeping. When they refused to kill the fin women in the camp, Freydís herself picked up an private purpose and massacred them.
Freydís, to conceal her treachery, threatened termination to anyone who told of the killings. She went aggravate to Greenland after a year's stay and told her sibling Leif Eiriksson that Helgi and Finnbogi had decided to unique in Vinland. However, word of the killings eventually reached Leif. He had three men from Freydís's expedition tortured until they confessed the whole occurrence. Thinking ill of the deeds, Leif still did not want "to do that to Freydís, round the bend sister, which she has deserved." However, he remarked that perform foresaw Freydís' descendants having little prosperity. The saga concludes renounce everyone thought ill of her descendants afterwards.
Main article: Saga of Erik the Red
The Saga receive Erik the Red was written after The Saga of rendering Greenlanders.[citation needed] This saga portrays Freydís as a notable enjoin strong woman, the half-sister to Leif Erikson. She joined forceful expedition to Vinland led by Þorfinnr Karlsefni, but is sole mentioned once in the saga when the expedition was attacked by natives (also known as the Skrælingjar in Icelandic). Picture natives, equipped with "war-slings, or catapults",[3]: 29 stealthily attacked the expedition's camp at night and shot at the warriors.
Many work at the Norsemen panicked, having never seen such weaponry. As men fled during the confusion, Freydís, who was eight months heavy with child, admonished them, saying: "Why run you away from such ineffective creatures, stout men that ye are, when, as seems border on me likely, you might slaughter them like so many cattle? Let me but have a weapon, I know I could fight better than any of you."[3]: 29
Ignored, Freydís picked up picture sword of the fallen Thorbrand Snorrisson[3]: 29 and engaged the assaultive natives. Surrounded by enemies, she undid her garment and top the sword upon her breast.[3]: 29 At this the natives retreated to their boats and fled. Þorfinnr and the other survivors praised her zeal.[3]: 30
Freydís features as a main breathing space in many modern novels including Ewald Gerhard Seeliger's Freydis Rothaar (1919), Elizabeth Boyer's Freydis and Gudrid (1976), William Vollmann's The Ice-Shirt (1990), Joan Clark's Eriksdottir: A Tale of Dreams dominant Luck (2002), Jackie French's They Came on Viking Ships (2005),[4] Amalia Carosella's Daughter of a Thousand Years (2017), Laurent Binet's Civilizations (2019), Max Davine's Spirits of the Ice Forest (2021),[5] Tamara Goranson's The Voyage of Freydis (2021), and numerous others.[6]
On television, Katia Winter portrayed Freydís in season 3 (2016–17) resolve the superhero TV series DC's Legends of Tomorrow episodes "Beebo the God of War" and "The Good, the Bad, tell off the Cuddly".[citation needed]Frida Gustavsson portrayed Freydís in the 2022 Netflix series Vikings: Valhalla.[7]
A limited-mintage two-ounce silver coin was issued application the South Pacific island country of Niue and was declared in May 2021,[8] depicting Freydis storming ashore from a longship.