Jon. I will. Exit.
Sveinungi. Where are they?
Jorunn. They are out on the hraun.
Enter Bjørg, carrying a blanket.
Bjørg. Here is the blanket.
Sveinungi. Why did they go out there? (Takes the blanket, goes to the chest, and runs his hand over it.) Here it's been bruised. (Throws the blanket over it.) I did not think you would have all this to go through. (Takes a long breath.) It is pretty hard when one has grown as old as I am to see one's work destroyed.
Jorunn. That is true.
Sveinungi. My only comfort is that I shall have a capable man to help me put up the buildings again. (Gazing over the "hraun.") What can it be that is keeping Ljot out there? Has she been gone long?
Rannveig. I don't know.
Sveinungi. I hope she has not gone down into one of the fissures. One can't tell what may happen. The walls might cave in, or they might close overhead.