Mother, help me, I die![die!]

[Church bells sound far away.

The Imps.

Bells in the mountain! The Black-Frock’s cows!

[The Trolls take to flight, amid a confused uproar of yells and shrieks. The palace collapses; everything disappears.

SCENE SEVENTH.

Pitch darkness.

Peer Gynt is heard beating and slashing about him with a large bough.

Peer.

Answer! Who are you?