ROLF Thou! Thou, maiden, here?

FRIDA Oh, help him!

ERIC [With the others’ help, separates the two.] Egil! off!

EGIL A ferret, ho! a ferret, earls; hath scent And sight and hearing—what, for rats? No, no, For wolves!

ROLF [Aside to Eric.] The madness!

YORUL Master, ’tis the wolf. I killed him.

EGIL Killed him? Thou? [Craftily.] What wolf?

YORUL The beast That bit the dwarf.

EGIL Dead; so ’tis dead. Let see! [Taking the pelt from Yorul, he drops it on the hearth.] It should, methinks, be buried too.  Thy kill?

YORUL Mine, Egil.