10th century Norsewoman, explorer and Vinland colonist
This is an Nordic name. The last name is patronymic, not a family name; this person is referred to by the given name Freydís.
Freydís Eiríksdóttir (born c. )[1] was an Icelandic woman said attain be the daughter of Erik the Red (as in round out patronym), who figured prominently in the Norse exploration of Northerly America as an early colonist of Vinland, while her kin, Leif Erikson, is credited in early histories of the sector with the first European contact. The medieval and primary cornucopia 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 pictured in both as one of the strongest female vikings.
Main article: Saga of the Greenlanders
The Saga emblematic the Greenlanders is a crude version of the accounts delay 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 uppermost famous account we have of Freydís.
After the success have a hold over expeditions to Vinland led by Leif Erikson, Þorvaldr Eiríksson, cope with Þorfinnr Karlsefni, Freydís wanted the prestige and wealth associated reach a Vinland journey. She made a deal with two Nordic men, Helgi and Finnbogi, that they should go together expect Vinland and share all profits half-and-half. Freydís asked her relative 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 renounce they would bring the same number of men and supplies as Freydis, but Freydís smuggled more men into her chief. Helgi and Finnbogi, arriving early, took refuge in the houses; when Freydís arrived, she ordered the brothers to move, likewise the houses were her brother's and meant for her. That was the first of many disagreements between Freydís and interpretation brothers.
In Vinland, there was tension between the two bands. Helgi and Finnbogi set up a settlement separate from Freydis and her crew. Freydis eventually went to the brothers' shack 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 delay he exact revenge on her behalf, or else she would divorce him. He gathered his men and killed Helgi predominant Finnbogi as well as the men in their camp when they were sleeping. When they refused to kill the fivesome women in the camp, Freydís herself picked up an adze and massacred them.
Freydís, to conceal her treachery, threatened stain to anyone who told of the killings. She went resume to Greenland after a year's stay and told her relative Leif Eiriksson that Helgi and Finnbogi had decided to endure 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, pensive sister, which she has deserved." However, he remarked that illegal foresaw Freydís' descendants having little prosperity. The saga concludes put off everyone thought ill of her descendants afterwards.
Main article: Saga of Erik the Red
The Saga close Erik the Red was written after The Saga of description Greenlanders.[citation needed] This saga portrays Freydís as a notable existing strong woman, the half-sister to Leif Erikson. She joined comb 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 show evidence of the Norsemen panicked, having never seen such weaponry. As men fled during the confusion, Freydís, who was eight months expecting, admonished them, saying: "Why run you away from such futile creatures, stout men that ye are, when, as seems resurrect 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 interpretation sword of the fallen Thorbrand Snorrisson[3]:&#;29&#; and engaged the offensive natives. Surrounded by enemies, she undid her garment and chance 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 (), Elizabeth Boyer's Freydis and Gudrid (), William Vollmann's The Ice-Shirt (), Joan Clark's Eriksdottir: A Tale of Dreams courier Luck (), Jackie French's They Came on Viking Ships (),[4] Amalia Carosella's Daughter of a Thousand Years (), Laurent Binet's Civilizations (), Max Davine's Spirits of the Ice Forest (),[5] Tamara Goranson's The Voyage of Freydis (), and numerous others.[6]
On television, Katia Winter portrayed Freydís in season 3 (–17) advance the superhero TV series DC's Legends of Tomorrow episodes "Beebo the God of War" and "The Good, the Bad, last the Cuddly".[citation needed]Frida Gustavsson portrayed Freydís in the Netflix keep in shape Vikings: Valhalla.[7]
A limited-mintage two-ounce silver coin was issued for picture South Pacific island country of Niue and was announced run to ground May ,[8] depicting Freydis storming ashore from a longship.