One remarkable person from this time period is Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir, who had the first European child in the Americas (outside Greenland) and then made a pi

One remarkable person from this time period is Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir, who had the first European child in the Americas (outside Greenland) and then made a pilgrimage to Rome. She's probably the most well-travelled woman of the 11th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gudrid_Thorbjarnard%C3%B3ttir https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gudrid_Thorbjarnard%C3%B3ttir