SIGURD. So soon as the storm abates, and my quarrel with Gunnar
is ended.
DAGNY. And then wilt thou buy land and build thee a homestead, and
go a-viking no more?
SIGURD. Yes, yes,—that have I promised.
DAGNY. And I may believe without doubt that Hiordis spoke falsely when she said that I was unworthy to be thy wife?
SIGURD. Yes yes, Dagny, trust thou to my word.
DAGNY. Then am I glad again, and will try to forget all the evil that here has been wrought. In the long winter evenings we will talk together of Gunnar and Hiordis, and——
SIGURD. Nay, Dagny, wouldst thou have things go well with us, do
thou never speak Hiordis' name when we sit together in Iceland.
DAGNY (mildly upbraiding him). Unjust is thy hatred towards her.
Sigurd, Sigurd, it is unlike thee.
ONE OF THE MEN (approaching). There now, the mound is finished.
ORNULF (as if awaking). The mound? Is it—ay, ay——