Aslaug

In order to hide her beauty – the accepted sign of her noble origins[2] – they rubbed her in tar and dressed her in a long hood.

Entranced by Kráka's beauty, they allowed the bread they were baking to burn; when Ragnar inquired about this mishap, they told him about the girl.

[4][5] It is changed in tone and emphasis by Morris' romanticism,[6] excising the saga's more somber and complicated motifs and portraying Ragnar as the typical hero wooing the maiden.

[7] She appears in Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué's "Aslauga's Knight," published in 1810 with two other Icelandic romances as Der Held des Nordens (The Hero of the North).

A principal character in the television series Vikings (2013–2016), played by Alyssa Sutherland, is loosely based on the legend, and introduced to Ragnar in the manner it described.

King Heimer and Aslaug. Painting by August Malmström (1856).
Áke and Grima discover Aslaug. Painting by Mårten Eskil Winge (1862).