Freydis
Freydķs Eiriksdottir was a Viking woman who sailed to Vinland in the early 11th century. She was an illegitimate daughter of Erik the Red and half sister to Leif Eriksson. She was married to a man named Ehemann Thorvaršur.
Note: the following is from the sagas, and is therefore questionable
Freydis was a member of the expedition led by Thorfinnr Karlsefni Thordarson which, after the discovery of Vinland, attempted to make the first European colony there. A year after this expedition she and her husband traveled there again, with Icelanders Helgi and Finnbogir.
Upon arrival in Vinland, the alliance dissolved, and Helgi and Finnbogir built their own separate settlement there. Following a meeting in their camp, Freydis told her husband that she had been raped there, and asked him to avenge her. Thorvaršur took his men to the camp and killed the men there; five women survived. Freydis, however, was not satisfied, and killed the women with an axe.
Following the incident Thorvaršur and Freydis returned to Greenland, and were exiled on account of their actions in Vinland.
