The saga says Freydís Eiríksdóttir had her partners killed in Vinland, axed their five women herself and sailed home in their larger ship

The Saga of the Greenlanders says Freydís, daughter of Erik the Red and sister of Leif, made a partnership with two Icelandic brothers, Helgi and Finnbogi. Each side would take thirty fighting men plus women, and they would share the profits equally. Freydís hid five extra men on her ship. In Vinland she told the brothers that Leif had lent his houses to her, not to them. One night she went to Finnbogi and asked to exchange ships, since theirs was larger. She came back and told her husband Thorvard that the brothers had beaten and shamed her. Thorvard's men bound the brothers' men and killed them as they came out. No one would kill the five women, so Freydís asked for an axe and killed them. She loaded the brothers' ship with the best goods and told her crew that anyone who spoke would be killed. They were to say the brothers had stayed behind. In Greenland, Leif had three of her men tortured until they told the story. He said he would not punish his sister but foresaw that her descendants "will not get on well in this world." The saga ends that people thought ill of her family from then on. Erik the Red's Saga tells a different Freydís story. World History Encyclopedia dates the writing of both sagas to the 13th century. Radiocarbon dates from L'Anse aux Meadows fall between 980 and 1020.