Helga

Helga is the daughter of the chief of the Jomsvikings, Sigvaldi, and the niece of Thorkell. She agreed with Thors' decision to give up fighting, and left her father's home together with her infant daughter Ylva. Helga has a gentle personality, but when Ylva was born and Thors hesitated to name their daughter out of disappointment that the child was not a boy, Helga became fiercely angry and demanded that Thors name her. Flustered, Thors immediately named their daughter Ylva after his own mother. This episode is later recounted by Thors as "the only time my wife ever got angry."

In 1014, according to Leif, who met Thorfinn again in York, Helga's health had deteriorated. When she reunited with Thorfinn in December 1018, unlike Ylva, Helga recognized Thorfinn at first sight and welcomed him warmly. She now lives surrounded by her daughter, son-in-law, and grandchildren.