He heard her voice—her voice.
"Recite it, Ingeborg—boys are so stupid in such things."
It was a poem from the Norwegian history. Ingeborg's voice came clearly:
And that was young Queen Gyda,
The flower in King Harald's spring—
Walks yet so proud a maiden
Over the mountain ling?
Highborn was she and haughty,
Her seat she would not share;
The Hordaland damsels away she sent,