That heart and mind should be light, what wonder?

Gudmund.

In the King’s high hall I found not the joy

That I knew by my own poor hearth as a boy.

Margit.

[Without looking at him.]

While I, as at Solhoug each day flits past,

Thank Heaven that here has my lot been cast.

Gudmund.

’Tis well if for this you can thankful be—