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RESTORATION Mark Chew RESTORATION Mark Chew

Restoration of "Freydis" Sail number J1

The only medieval and primary sources we have of Freydís are the two Vinland sagas; the Grœnlendinga saga and the Eiríks saga rauða. The two sagas offer differing accounts, though in both Freydís appears as a masculine, strong-willed woman who would defy the odds of her society.

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