Now when winter set in the brothers suggested that games should be started to pass the time. This went on for a while, until a quarrel arose which led to discord between them, and the games stopped, and no one went from the one camp to the other. This state of things continued for a long time during the winter. Then one morning early Freydis got out of bed and dressed, but put nothing on her feet: and it happened that there was a heavy dew. She took her husband’s cloak, and went out to the brothers’ house, to the door: now a man had been out shortly before, and had left the door ajar. She opened the door, and stood for a while in the doorway without saying anything, till Finnbogi, who was lying furthest from the door and who was awake, said, ‘What do you want here, Freydis?’ She replied, ‘I want you to get up and come out with me, and I want to talk to you.’ He did as she asked, and they went to a log which was lying under the wall of the house, and sat down on it. ‘How are you enjoying yourself?’ she said. ‘I like the country,’ he replied, ‘but I do not like the quarrel which has sprung up between us, for I do not see any reason for it.’ ‘There you speak truly,’ said she, ‘and I am of the same opinion, but my reason for coming here to you is that I want to buy the ship which belongs to you brothers, for you have a larger ship than I, and I wish to go away from this place.’ ‘I will agree to that’, said he, ‘if it will please you.’ With that they separated; she went home, and Finnbogi went to bed. She climbed into bed with her cold feet, and waked Thorvard with them, so that he asked her why she was so cold and wet. She answered with great vehemence, ‘I have been to the brothers to bid for their ship, since I wanted to buy a larger ship; but they took it so ill that they beat me and grossly maltreated me: and you, miserable man, will neither avenge my shame nor your own; but I can realize now that I am not in Greenland, and I will separate from you if you will not avenge this.’ And when he could bear her reproaches no longer he ordered his men to get up at once and take their weapons, and having done so they went to the brothers’ house, and they went in to them as they slept, and took them and bound them, and brought each man out as he was bound, and Freydis had each one killed as he came out. Now all the men were killed, but the women were left, and no one would kill them. Then said Freydis, ‘Hand me an axe.’ So they did, and she killed the five women who were there, and left them dead. Now after that outrage they returned to their camp, and Freydis appeared to them to think that she had arranged matters perfectly: and she said to her men, ‘If we are lucky enough to get back to Greenland I shall contrive the death of anyone who tells of these doings; we must rather say that they stayed behind here when we came away.’