Þórgerður the Colonist

Þórgerður the Curious doesn't know who is her parents and spent her early life in a temple. She grew up and become a well-educated priestess. However, not religion, it's the huge terra incognita that just laid right next to her island-homeland on the map that she had true interst in.

When the Council of Bergbjórsteinn called volunteers for their exploration plan, Þórgerður corresponded. She was accepted and went on a expedition along with other enthusiasts on the ship "Syónaukir" headed to the west.

The expedition didn't go very well. Months passed, food disappeared little by little, no sign of land and the sailors started to panic, they urged to sail back. Had a bad argument with those sailors but the greedy young captain refused to follow their demand.

This led to a revolt of the sailors. They roped Þórgerður, the captain and any other protesters, placed them in a small boat before abandoned them in the middle of the nowhere. She spent therrible days and nights on the boat before it was sunk by a storm. She tried to get herself on a piece of wood before losing consciousness.

When she woke up, she was laying on the beach, of a new strange land.

She spent the next 20 years living alone in this land inside a small hut, using her magic to hunt for food and mostly drinking rain water. Later on she planted local vegetable and make some research about local geography, barely learned the nearby natives language. Before being rescued by one of the later discovery attempt from her homeland, she had written in her journal about local herbs, rivers, animals, survive skill that she had known and especially some interesting stories about "Golden Stream" and similar stuff that she heard from the natives. The land (the continent) which she discovered was named New Greenland.

She becomes famous for her story and her journal was (is) considered containing highly-valueable knowledge. Years later, Þórgerður returned that place the second time, but this time with settlers, colonists and "conquistadors" (for the lack of a better-term). She formed the first colony ever on the New World, it became a prosperous trade center and one of the major source of sugar of my world.