The Vikings reason for leaving Vinland.
...king closer at the signs of the fever (which was known as a wasting sickness,) it looks more likely to be poison (arsenic). Thorstien and Gudrid go to a near by settlement where the same fever takes the lords wife and Thorstien. Again all signs point to a poison since they both died in the same manner and it was noted that Gudrid was very unhappy in her marriage. Thorstien the Black takes Gudrid home where she marries Thorfinn Thordsson. So it seems that Gudrid had already killed three people before going to Vinland. Thorfinn decides to try and go to Vinland as well and takes his wife and a man named Thorvald. When they arrive they travel the rives a bay and finally settle on a place they name Straumsfjord. After a settlement is established the Skraelings (Natives) arrived. Although both sides couldn’t understand the other language the Skraelings opened there packs and gestures to trade for furs and wares. Thorfinn only traded them milk. An excerpt from Atlantic Crossings Before Columbus tells the rest: “Early in the second winter the savages came again, in larger numbers, with the same sort of wares as before. Karlsefni then told the women to carry outside to them the same food, for which hey previously made so profitable a trade, and nothing else. When the native saw this they threw their bundles over the palisade. …One of the savages who has tried to seize some weapons had been felled by on of Karlsefni’s men. Instantly the savages fled, leaving garments and goods behind them… “Now we shall have to plan against them,” said Karlsefni..” And he did. He laid a trap and killed them so that thy could not have a chance for superior weapons. They natives attacked them mercilessly driving them away. Revenge is a horrible thing but the natives killed the Viking at every chance they got. This made it harder and harder to live in peace. The next couple there are Freydis and Thorvald. Freydis wanted to go home and will do anything to do it. Thorvald was one of Thorfinn’s Crew and when Thorfinn’s expedition returned home he took his wife and filled up his ship, and two brothers Helgi and Finnbogi loaded up there larger ship and accompanied them. The brothers were under the impression that everything was to be shared. When they arrived Freydis already began her wickedness and told the brothers that they could not stay in the same houses and had to go build there own. This upset the brothers and they it split up the camps and drove a wedge between them. Freydis came up with an evil plan and walked to the brothers camp on night with no shoes. She asked the brothers for peace and to borrow th...