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So soon as the storm abates, and my dealings with Gunnar are ended.

And then wilt thou buy land and build thee a homestead, and go a-viking no more?

Yes, yes,—that have I promised thee.

And I may believe without doubt that Hiördis spoke falsely when she said that I was unworthy to be thy wife?

Yes yes, Dagny, trust thou to my word.

Then am I glad again, and will try to forget all the evil that here has been wrought. In the long winter evenings we will talk together of Gunnar and Hiördis, and

Nay, Dagny, wouldst thou have things go well with us, never do thou speak Hiördis' name when once we are at home in Iceland.

[Mildly upbraiding him.] Unjust is thy hatred towards her. Sigurd, Sigurd, it is little like thee.

[Approaching.] There now, the mound is finished.