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 weaponless whilst thou art in danger. [Listens.] I hear shouts and sword-strokes;—they are already at the hall. [Goes towards the right, but stops and recoils in astonishment.] Hiördis! Comes she hither! ''enters, clad in a short scarlet kirtle, with gilded armour: helmet, hauberk, arm-plates, and greaves. Her hair is flying loose; at her back hangs a quiver, and at her belt a small shield. She has in her hand the bow strung with her hair.''

[Hastily looking behind her, as though in dread of something pursuing her, goes close up to seizes him by the arm, and whispers:] Sigurd, Sigurd, canst thou see it?

What? Where?

The wolf there—close behind me; it does not move; it glares at me with its two red eyes. It is my wraith, Sigurd! Three times has it appeared to me; that bodes that I shall surely die to-night!

Hiördis, Hiördis!

It has sunk into the earth! Aye, aye, now it has warned me.