The sagas tell of another encounter between the natives and the Norse. One member of the second expedition was Freydis, an illegitimate daughter of Eric the Red and hence a half sister to Lief Ericson. Once a part of Norsemen, including Freydis, were away from the settlement where they encountered a larger hunting party of natives. The men of the Norse party decided it would be better to avoid further confrontation with the natives. But Freydis would have no retreat. She challenged the Norsemen to attack and defeat the skraelings. When the men declined she charged the natives herself. She soon found herself surrounded. She picked up a sword and began to battle. She bared a breast and slapped it with her sword to call to the attention of the natives that she was a women. And what is more she was pregnant. This behavior on the part of a woment was so strange that the natives retreated in perplexity.

Although Freydis may have been a brave Amazon the other saga reveals her as the personification of evil. There was another group that had joined with her family's expedition to Vinland. When the two groups arrived at Leif's Vinland settlement the other group expected to be able to stay in one of the settlement houses. But Freydis announced that Leif had loaned the houses only to her family and the other group would have build their own houses. The other group did so some distance from the settlement. When the expedition had collected ship loads of goods, such as timber, and were ready to return to Greenland, Freydis asked the other group for the use of their larger ship. The other group agreed. But Freydis was not content with just having the larger ship, she wanted all of the ships and their cargoes. She claimed she had been insulted by the men of the other group and demanded that the men of her group avenge her honor. Her men then killed all of the men of the other group but would not kill the women. Freydis herself then grabbed an ax and killed the five women of the other group. Freydis swore all the members of her group to secrecy about what had occured in Vinland and the expedition returned to Greenland with cargoes of trade goods. The story leaked out and Freydis was condemned for her evil deeds.