Following on from my last adventure, Freydis Eiriksdottir chose to do what her wimpy, Christian brother did not. Despite Freydis refusing to accept prima signatio, her mother Thjodhild gave Freydis her blessing and told her to be careful and to change her underwear regularly while she was travelling. It would not do to be killed by monstrous sea beasts while wearing dirty underwear.
Freydis gathered a crew including the carpenter Helgi, whose brother she had saved from a slavering Jotun, and set out for Vinland. She also added Thorbjorg the seer to her retinue and saved her younger brother's life from some type of pestilence thanks to an elixir she gained from the light elves.
The journey was largely uneventful, if only because the crew steered clear of the large sea serpent they saw on the way. Every time Freydis sought to close with it and attack it, the ship seemed to get pushed away by the waves. How ever did that happen?
Landing in Vinland, Freydis and her crew gathered supplies, only for one of their number to be eaten by a uniped. Freydis drove the beast off by yelling and pounding her naked breast with her sword. Then she singlehandedly drove off a Kraken that sought to drag her ship under. And finally, Freydis and her crew landed in Vinland, where they set up serious wine production, only for Freydis to get a rotten taste in her mouth when Thorfinn karlsefni turned up with his simpering, Christian bride Gudrid. As a strong, viking woman with no liking for the white Christ, Freydis drove them off.
Unfortunately, the livestock started getting stolen at this point. Freydis did not have enough men to take on the locals who were enjoying this food, so she was forced to return to Brattahlid in Greenland, where she told me this tale that I have relayed in her own words with no embellishment or adornment.
Skål for Queen Freydis of Vinland!
Our story will return to Leif next time I pick up this game.
N.B. Freydis does not come off well in the Vinland sagas. She is murderous and inclined to do nasty things to people she does not like. Most people remember her driving off indigenous people by baring her breast and beating on it with a sword she had picked up, and admire her for that bravery. However, the treachery towards Helgi and Finnbogi and the instigation of their murder is often forgotten. Fortunately, in this game she did not have them killed yet. Maybe next time?
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