Freydis Eiriksdottir was a viking woman who sailed to vinland in the early 11th century. She was an illegitimate daughter of Erik the Red and half sister to Leif Eriksson.
... European settlement in the Western Hemisphere William Baffin, (1584-1622), explorer Willem Barents, (1550?-1597), Dutch, died on Nova Zembla seeking the Northeast ...