Curb thyself, Hiordis; it is unseemly to bear thee thus.
DAGNY (imploringly). Stay, foster-sister--stay; I will appease
my father.
HIORDIS (without listening to her). Homewards, homewards! Who could
have foretold me that I should wear out my life as a worthless leman?
But if I am to bear this life of shame, ay, even a single day longer,
then must my husband do such a deed--such a deed as shall make his name
more famous than all other names of men.
(Goes out to the right.)
GUNNAR (softly). Sigurd, this thou must promise me, that we shall
have speech together ere thou leave the land.
(Goes out with his men to the right.)
(The storm has meanwhile ceased; the mid-day sun is now visible,
like a red disc, low upon the rim of the sea.)
ORNULF (threateningly). Dearly shalt thou aby this day's work,
foster-daughter!
DAGNY. Father, father! Surely thou wilt not harm her!
ORNULF. Let me be! Now, Sigurd, now can no amends avail between
Gunnar and me.
SIGURD. What thinkest thou to do?
ORNULF. That I know not; but far and wide shall the tale be told
how Ornulf of the Fiords came to Gunnar's hall.
SIGURD (with quiet determination). That may be; but this I tell
thee, Ornulf, that thou shalt never bear arms against him so long
as I am alive.
ORNULF. So, so! And what if it be my will to?
SIGURD.
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