Half sideways and half toward Gunnar.
Örnulf.
That bodes but half vengeance; well well,—we shall see!
Gunnar.
[Approaching.] Örnulf, I know well that all my goods were naught against thy loss; but crave of me what thou wilt——
Örnulf.
[Sternly interrupting him.] Give me Thorolf’s body, and let me go! Where lies he?
[Gunnar points silently to the back.
Örnulf.
[Takes a step or two, but turns and says in a voice of thunder to Sigurd, Dagny, and others who are making as though to follow him, sorrowing.] Stay! Think ye Örnulf will be followed by a train of mourners, like a whimpering woman? Stay, I say!—I can bear my Thorolf alone. [With calm strength.] Sonless I go; but none shall say that he saw me bowed.