Freydis (Old Norse Freydís) combines Frey (the god) + dís (lady, goddess). **Freydís Eiríksdóttir (c. 970-?)** — daughter of Erik the Red and sister of Leif Erikson — **the Norse explorer who led her own expedition to Vinland (North America) around 1010 CE, about 480 years before Columbus**. **According to the *Saga of the Greenlanders*, when their Vinland camp was attacked by Indigenous warriors and the Norse men fled, the pregnant Freydis seized a fallen sword, slapped it against her bare breast, and screamed so fiercely that the attackers fled in terror**. **One of the most vividly drawn women in any Norse saga.**
Featured in the *Saga of Erik the Red* and the *Saga of the Greenlanders*.
Freydis reduces to four — the number of Vinland explorer.