We? Ha, thou meanest----!
HIORDIS (with dignity). I have been homeless in this world from that
day thou didst take another to wife. That was ill done of thee! All
good gifts may a man give his faithful friend--all, save the woman he
loves; for if he do that, he rends the Norn's secret web, and two lives
are wrecked. An unerring voice within me tells me I came into the
world that my strong soul might cheer and sustain thee through heavy
days, and that thou wast born to the end I might find in _one_ man
all that seemed to me great and noble; for this I know Sigurd--had we
two held together, thou hadst become more famous than all others, and
I happier.
SIGURD. It avails not now to mourn. Thinkest thou it is a merry
life that awaits me? To be by Dagny's side day be day, and feign a
love my heart shrinks from? Yet so it must be; it cannot be altered.
HIORDIS (in a growing frenzy). It _shall_ be altered! We must out
of this life, both of us! Seest thou this bow-string? With it can I
surely hit my mark; for I have crooned fair sorceries over it! (Places
an arrow in the bow, which is strung.) Hark! hearest thou that rushing
in the air? It is the dead men's ride to Nalhal: I have bewitched
them hither;--we two will join them in their ride!
SIGURD (shrinking back). Hiordis, Hiordis--I fear thee!
HIORDIS (not heeding him).
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