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.