Why should'st thou heed his words?
ORNULF. Who knows? The story goes, and many believe it, that Jokul
gave his children a wolf's heart to eat, that they might be fierce and
fell; and Hiordis has surely had her share, that one can well see.
(Breaks off, on looking out towards the right.) Gunnar!--Are we two
to meet again!
GUNNAR (enters). Ay, Ornulf, think of me what thou wilt, but I
cannot part from thee as thy foe.
ORNULF. What is thy purpose?
GUNNAR. To hold out the hand of fellowship to thee ere thou depart.
Hear me all of you: go with me to my homestead, and be my guests as
long as ye will. We lack not meat or drink or sleeping-room, and there
shall be no talk of our quarrel either to-day or to-morrow.
SIGURD. But Hiordis----?
GUNNAR. Yields to my will; she changed her thought on the homeward
way, and deemed, as I did, that we would soon be at one if ye would
but be our guests.
DAGNY. Yes, yes; let it be so.
SIGURD (doubtfully). But I know not whether----
DAGNY. Gunnar is thy foster-brother; little I know thee if thou
say him nay.
GUNNAR (to SIGURD). Thou hast been my friend where'er we fared;
thou wilt not stand against me now.
DAGNY. And to depart from the land, leaving Hiordis with hate in
her heart--no, no, that must we not!
GUNNAR. I have done Ornulf a great wrong; until it is made good, I
cannot be at peace with myself.
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