Örnulf.

[With growing uneasiness.] Ye stand all silent, I mark it now. What ails you? Where is Thorolf?

Dagny.

Sigurd, Sigurd—this will be the sorest blow to him!

Gunnar.

[Struggling with himself.] Old man!—No——and yet, it cannot be hid——

Örnulf.

[Vehemently.] My son! Where is he?

Gunnar.

Thorolf is slain!