Einar. It was not my fault.
Sveinungi (to the Servants). Go! What are you waiting for? Exeunt Servants.
Sveinungi (to Ljot). Now, what is it you have to say to me?
Sølvi. I have come here to ask for the hand of your daughter.
Sveinungi. Has not my daughter told you that she is betrothed?
Ljot. I have told him everything. I never cared for Halfdan—you know that, father, and I will not be his wife.
Jorunn. Ljot, it has never happened yet that one of my kin has broken faith. If you do it, you will be the first.
Sveinungi. And you have not reckoned with your father. It does not lie altogether with yourself to break your word. Do you think you can make a fool of me? (To Sølvi.) It does not make you my son-in-law that you have trifled with my daughter.
Sølvi. It was no mere chance that we two found each other. Only for Ljot's sake have I stayed so long in these parts. I came here to-night to find out how you had fared; I could not help it.
Sveinungi. You feel proud that you have coaxed a young girl to break her word. You think yourself very brave, and you have taken advantage of her when she was beside herself with fear. You have come like a thief in the dead of night.