Belladonna

Colleen MacGrath is the daughter of Nolan and Alana MacGrath, living in Wexford, Ireland in the 10th century AD. She was about to be wed to her beloved Donovan O'Connor. Both are powerful families and the marriage will unite Ireland. On her wedding, vikings invaded the village and killed every member of the wedding party. Colleen discovered that they were betrayed by the Irishman Kildare, who didn't want a Christian high king. Kildare killed Colleen. Buried, she was visited by the Celtic goddess of war and death, Morrigan. The goddess resurrected Colleen to exact her revenge on the vikings. Colleen renamed herself Belladonna.

Her enemies know a different story however, probably purely fictional and made to instill fear in her enemies. This tale has her mother as a shield maiden of Götaland, who was one day suddenly overpowered and raped by dozens of invaders. The invaders destroyed her village and left her for dead. Taking what survivors there were, she set off by boat in pursuit for revenge. More than two years later, her boat ran aground on Færøyene with only the child on board. No one was sure what the child had been eating, but there were some guesses. They called the child Belladonna. She was adopted by an old norseman, either as daughter or concubine or both. By the time she was a girl, she could best any man in the settlement.