INGIMUND The virus of the wolf Corrupts his blood; yet he may live.

EGIL May live.

WULDOR O God! I could take heart to bear this woe But that the damnèd beast that bit my master Still breathes.

INGIMUND I wounded him.

WULDOR Yet he escaped us.

ROLF You, Wuldor, but not us. The wolf is dead; Behold his skin! [Reënter Yorul. He staggers forward.]

INGIMUND Who killed him?

ERIC Egil’s man Yorul.

INGIMUND Hail, Yorul! This deed shall atone For much of thy defiance and thy master’s. Well done!

YORUL [Wildly.] A lie! a lie! the wolf still lives.