Aslaug happens to be bathing in a river along the path taken by Ragnar and his Vikings between Kattegat and Gotaland in Season 1 of Vikings. She immediately demands an apology and Ragnar obliges, provided Aslaug could meet the terms of a riddle he proposes.
This first encounter alone is filled with things that had fans wondering about Aslaug. She appeared out of nowhere and then stole Ragnar away from Lagertha with the promise of sons that Lagertha couldn't give him. Fans were intrigued and appalled at this development and as Aslaug's story continued, there were so many things that just didn't make any sense.
10 Shamed Men When They Saw Her Nude
Ragnar finds Aslaug in a river, bathing. She has nothing and lives on a farm with her adopted parents. She doesn't have a stitch of clothing on her and simply presents herself as a princess demanding an apology.
She has shieldmaidens with her, but it doesn't make any sense for a naked woman in this culture (as it was presented in the series) to approach a hoard of Viking warrior men and demand that they apologize for seeing her naked. Modesty did not play a big part in the show.
9 Mythical Figure Parents
Aslaug says that her parents are mythical figures from the Viking sagas and nobody seems to question her. The other characters either humor her or believe her completely. She tells them that her father was the great dragon-slayer Sigurd and her mother was the famed shieldmaiden, Brynhildr.
It is said that many of the legendary fighters in the Eddas lived during the 800s to 900s and that's only at the end of the show, not while Aslaug is alive. It makes no sense that they'd be her parents, that people would know about them, or that it would be accepted with no proof that the people ever existed beyond her word.
8 Complied With Ragnar's Conditions
When Ragnar and Aslaug first meet, he agrees to apologize, but only under a few conditions. She must come back to them "neither dressed nor undressed, neither hungry nor full, and neither in company, nor alone." She complies and shows up with a partially eaten apple, dressed in a fishing net, and with a wolf at her side.
Even if Aslaug wanted Ragnar to see her wit, it made no sense for her to simply comply so quickly after taking such an issue with them, at first.
7 Was Open To A Poly-Marriage
While this may have been a grey area within the Viking culture, it didn't seem that Aslaug was willing to share what she believed to be her destiny with anyone. She knew that Lagertha would no longer give Ragnar sons and claimed that she was the one who do so. It makes no sense that she'd be willing to share that destiny with anyone when she is a princess in her own right.
As Ragnar's wife, Aslaug was only Lady of Kattegat because he wasn't king yet when they first got together. She had already sacrificed her status and her place in Gotaland. It wasn't in her character to also share the spoils she did earn.
6 Warned The Slave Girl
Lagertha was someone that could take Ragnar from Aslaug. Still, Aslaug was open to sharing Ragnar with her instead. When Ragnar shows interest in a slave girl, Aslaug warns her to be careful of who she makes herself familiar.
She behaves as if she's afraid the slave girl could take anything from her. She bore Ragnar the sons he always wanted. It's out of character for her to care at all when she had become queen by this point.
5 Sigurd Snake-In-The-Eye Prediction
Aslaug predicts that the next son she gave birth to would have a sign of the dragon-slayer in his eye, a symbol of her father Sigurd. She named the baby Sigurd and he did have the sign, but then nothing else happened.
Aslaug made the prediction sound pretty ominous, as if he was going to be some great man, but he goes on to live a pretty uninteresting life. Her prediction and the emphasis she put on it both made no sense.
4 Pushed Ivar's Fate
Before Ivar was conceived, Aslaug warned Ragnar that if he didn't stay away from her for three nights after he came home, the child conceived would be a monster. He didn't listen and Aslaug almost died giving birth to Ivar.
Aslaug loves her children and she believes she has power. She used that power she thought she had to let her son live a difficult life. She had no precedent for saying what she did, and gave no reason for why Ivar would be born a monster. None of it made any sense.
3 Cheated With Harbard
There is more than one instance in the show when Aslaug talks of magic and consequences. She holds these concepts over Ragnar's head often. Harbard comes to town with an apparently magical cure for Ivar's pain and Aslaug, who previously hated the idea of her husband sleeping with a slave, fell right into bed with him.
While she was there, two of her sons almost died after they fell into a frozen lake and Siggy, who was watching them, did die. When Harbard comes back a few years later, Aslaug goes to bed with him again. It makes no sense for her to take that risk when the last time, her sons almost died.
2 Sent Ivar To Floki
Ragnar, Ivar's father, is a renowned warrior and leader. Hvitserk and Sigurd go with him raiding and while they're all away, Aslaug brings Ivar to Floki and asks Floki to teach Ivar to be a Viking. She believes that Ragnar can't teach her son to be a real Viking man because he has lost his way. She doesn't have any real concrete reasons and until that point in the show, she'd been extremely protective of Ivar.
It made no sense for her to basically drop him off with Floki and then walk away, leaving him to some undisclosed training.
1 Believed Lagertha Would Let Her Go
Lagertha takes over Kattegat as queen and overthrows Aslaug, who had assumed leadership after Ragnar was gone. Their history was never good and every fan and character around Aslaug, including Aslaug, knows that Lagertha believed Aslaug stole Ragnar from her.
She resented Aslaug for being able to give Ragnar sons when she couldn't. It made no sense for Aslaug to believe that Lagertha would really let her go when they made their deal. She had no reason to believe that could ever be possible.
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July 23, 2020 at 05:30AM
