Description

The wife of Thorfinn Karlsefni, leader of the Vinland expedition. Daughter of a chieftain herself, she left Iceland at a young age to study in Roma. As a young adult, she started her own trading company all around southern Europa before coming back to take care of her father and marry the first son of Eirik the Red, Thorstein. Thorstein died soon after their wedding, and Gudrid remarried with Thorfinn.