Avenged? Who shall avenge me?
Thorolf.
Listen: as I stood on board the ship, there came a man running, with a staff in his hand, and called to me: “If thou be of Örnulf’s shipfolk, then greet him from Kåre the Peasant, and say that now will I avenge the twain of us.” Thereupon he took a boat and rowed away, saying as he passed: “Twenty outlaws are at haven in the fiord; with them I fare southward, and ere eventide shall Hiördis be childless.”
Örnulf.
He said that! Ha, now I understand; Gunnar has sent his son away; Kåre is at feud with him——
Thorolf.
And now he is rowing southward to slay the boy!
Örnulf.
[With sudden resolution.] Up, all! That booty will we fight for!
Thorolf.