Supposedly a feminist re-telling of an old saga, it reads more like a complete re-imagining instead.
And what a bloody depressing read it is!
An abused wife voyages to afar to escape her husband who drags her back. She finds love inbetween but those who helped most all die.
The woman's character does not seem to align with what mediæval sources have to say of her at all.
But for all that, the novel is well worth reading simply because it is an accurate portrayal of what we know of spousal abuse and the support those subjected to it (do not) get.A woman with whom she hides tells her husband of her escape plans.
Her brother gives her his support to escape, and then appears to promptly give her abusive husband a ship to follow her...
And, so, The Voyage of Freydis was doomed almost before it began.