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 man of them armed or with gun or with club.
 * Foremost I hear the old Hegstad-churl howling.-
 * Now it's noised far and wide that Peer Gynt is abroad!
 * It is different, this, from a bout with a smith!
 * This is life! Every limb grows as strong as a bear's.
 * [Strikes out with his arms and leaps in the air.]
 * To crush, overturn, stem the rush of the foss!
 * To strike! Wrench the fir-tree right up by the root!
 * This is life! This both hardens and lifts one high!
 * To hell then with all of the savourless lies!

THREE SAETER GIRLS [rush across the hillside, screaming and
 * singing].
 * Trond of the Valfjeld! Bard and Kare!
 * Troll-pack! To-night would you sleep in our arms?

PEER
 * To whom are you calling?

THE GIRLS
 * To the trolls! to the trolls!

FIRST GIRL
 * Trond, come with kindness!

SECOND GIRL
 * Bard, come with force!

THIRD GIRL
 * The cots in the saeter are all standing empty!

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