Sigurd.
Answer me first: what wouldst thou do, were I to give thy husband his bane.
Hiördis.
[Looks hard at him.] Then must I keep silence and never rest until I had seen thee dead.
Sigurd.
[With a smile.] It is well, Hiördis—I knew it.
Hiördis.
[Hastily.] But it can never come to pass!
Sigurd.
It must come to pass; thou thyself hast cast the die even now for Gunnar’s life and mine.