GUNNAR. And your father hid you here so that the Christians should not get you?
GUNLÖD. Yes—and now he is expected home from Norway with followers as he is to be Erl of the island.
GUNNAR. God forbid!
GUNLÖD. Yes—yes—but you must not delay. He is expected home tonight.
GUNNAR. Good—there beyond Hjärleif's headland lies my ship.—Out to sea! There is a land wind, and before the first cock's crow we shall be beyond pursuit.
GUNLÖD. Yes! Yes!
GUNNAR. Soon we should be at Ostergötland—where the summer is still green—and there you shall live in my castle which I have built where your father's house stood.
GUNLÖD. Does not that still stand?
GUNNAR. No—it was burned.
GUNLÖD. By the Christians?