Einar (in the door). Shall you be home for dinner?
Helgi. No, the others will bring it to me. Exit to the left.
Enter Sveinungi.
Sveinungi. Are you here? Won't you come in and talk to your father? (Patting her shoulder.) This is the happiest day in my life since the time I got your mother. They go in.
Enter Jakobina with a plate of chicken-feed in her hand; goes to the door of the smithy.
Jakobina. Is Frida there? Can you spare her while she runs over to the chickens for me with their food?
Einar. Yes, indeed. Frida goes with the chicken-feed.
Jakobina (sits down on the horse-block). I had such a queer dream last night. I thought I was standing out there in the yard, and I saw a giant come striding across the hraun. I saw him stop right there—he stood with arms stretched out and bent down over the house.
[ ACT II]
A grass-grown yard, some rocks partly sunk in the ground. In the foreground, farthest to the right, a tent. In the background, to the left, the farm-house. In the outskirts of the yard a sheep-house with the roof and part of the walls in ruins. Beyond it, the "hraun," a lava-field stretching for miles, studded with jutting rocks and lava formations.