The sagas tell of king Harald being at a yule feast in Gudbrandsdalen at the Tofti estate, when a giant called Svási arrived and invited him to his hut.
During their three year long marriage she gave birth to four children: Sigurðr hrísi, Hálfdan háleggr, Guðrøðr ljómi and Rǫgnvaldr réttilbeini.
[2] When Snæfríðr suddenly died, Harald was beside himself with grief, but a man known as Thorleif the Wise convinced the king to leave the chamber where the queen lay and told him that it was not honorable to let the dead lie there in the same clothes she perished in.
Men hurried to prepare a pyre, but before they burned her, toads, snakes and lizards crawled out of her body.
[4] A character inspired by Snæfríðr appears in season 5 of History Channel's Vikings, played by Norwegian actress Dagny Backer Johnsen.