SHERIFF. She is dead. The waters took her!
PASTOR. May the Lord take her soul!
SOLDIER. O Lord, have respect unto our offering, as thou hast given thyself for us an offering.
PASTOR. "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son!"
BRITA. The water is falling!
ALL. The water is falling!
The gap in the ice is closed up again.
MATS and BRITA walk over to the MEWLINGS, break branches from the spruces set in the snow, and spread these over the body of KERSTI.
PASTOR. Will there be peace after this?
ALL. Peace and reconciliation!
PASTOR. [Beside the body of KERSTI]