Aslaug, also called Aslög, Kráka or Kraba, is a figure in Norse mythology who appears in Snorri's Edda, the Völsunga saga and in the saga of Ragnar Lodbrok as one of his wives.
King Heimer and Aslaug. Painting by August Malmström (1856).
Áke and Grima discover Aslaug. Painting by Mårten Eskil Winge (1862).
The Völsunga saga is a legendary saga, a late 13th-century prose rendition in Old Norse of the origin and decline of the Völsung clan. It is one of the most famous legendary sagas and an example of a "heroic saga" that deals with Germanic heroic legend.
Translation by Eiríkr Magnússon and William Morris, 1870, published by F. S. Ellis