When Athelstan lived with Nortermen and believed in the North gods, he had slept and almost fell in love with the sister of Ragnar Lothbroke, a shield maiden.

She was a fearless woman, someone who could fight as good as Rollo and Ragnar. She was on the raid that first captured him but nevertheless she treated him with respect and so he fell in love.

When he came back to Kattegat from the year in England, he was greeted to her waiting on the port, holding two babies in her arms