It’s funny, because people sort of love to say that she’s a a homewrecker, and she’s this other woman. But if you think about it from her point of view, in that time period men did sleep with other women while they were away. That was something that was mentioned episode one, season one! Lagertha says ‘Don’t sleep with too many women in Kattegat!’ [Aslaug] gets knocked up, and the guy that does it goes back and leaves her, so what is she left to do? She’s gonna have a baby. She was orphaned herself and doesn’t know her parents, and she’s gonna make damn sure that doesn’t happen to her kid.
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