There is a strange might in all thy speech.

[Approaches her.

Hiördis.

[Looks coldly at him.] Wouldst sit beside me?

Sigurd.

Thou deemest my heart is bitter toward thee. ’Tis the last time, Hiördis, that we shall have speech together; there is something that gnaws me like a sore sickness, and in this wise I cannot part from thee; thou must know me better.

Hiördis.

What wouldst thou?

Sigurd.

Tell thee a saga.