[Stops beside the console table.] I believe, now, that most people are just as puny creatures as I am in that respect.
Hilda.
I shouldn’t wonder.
Solness.
[Leaning against the table.] In the sagas——. Have you read any of the old sagas?
Hilda.
Oh yes! When I used to read books, I——
Solness.
In the sagas you read about vikings, who sailed to foreign lands, and plundered and burned and killed men——
Hilda.