The Reason Alyssa Sutherland Left Vikings After Season 4

Part history, mostly legend, and 100-percent drama, Vikings has given fans six whole seasons of fighting and feuding but the series actually lost one of its most deliciously cunning characters way back in season 4.

Alyssa Sutherland's Aslaug made a memorable entrance in Vikings at the end of season 1 and the start of season 2. A princess of Götaland, Aslaug was the orphaned daughter of a dragon-slaying father and a warrior mother. She also claimed to be a woman who had visions of the future but her preferred battlefield was the bedroom. Aslaug started by seducing farmer-turned-warrior and future king Ragnar with her wit and her potential to bare him his prophesied sons. Ragnar's wife Lagertha, meanwhile, was less than impressed with Aslaug, and the two women's rocky relationship through the next few seasons of Vikings finally culminated in Lagertha shooting her rival in the back.

It was undoubtedly a dramatic death especially as it looked for a minute like Aslaug might actually escape with her life. But why was that moment the right time to say goodbye to such a deviously fun character?

Well, borrowing her character's gift of foresight, Sutherland actually saw her Vikings exit coming. In 2016, right after Aslaug's final episode aired, the actress told Entertainment Weekly that she'd been waiting for Aslaug to be killed off ever since she joined the show. She admitted:

"The whole time I was on Vikings, I was waiting for this to happen. I figured [because] my character had been introduced in such a controversial way, the only thing to do with her was to get rid of her at some point. I actually thought that it would happen earlier, to be honest!"

She went on to explain that she found out for sure that Aslaug was going to die during season 4, while they were filming episodes nine and ten. One of the producers approached her while she was waiting to film a scene, and she joked that being approached in that manner must have meant her character was about to die. That's exactly what was happening, as it turns out, but Sutherland said she accepted Aslaug's fate because the character's manner of death fit her personality.

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