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Dagny.
[Softly and with self-control.] I know not; but this I know, that her bow has been here. Gunnar. Ay, I thought no less! Dagny. Hush, hush! [To herself.] So bitterly did she hate him! Gunnar. [Aside.] She has slain him—the night before the combat; then after all she loved me. [A thrill of dread runs through the whole group; Asgårdsreien—the ride of the fallen warriors to Valhal—hurtles through the air.
Egil.
[In terror.] Father! See, see!
Gunnar.
What is it?
Egil.
Up there—all the black horses!
Gunnar.
It is the clouds that
Örnulf.
Nay, it is the dead men's home-faring
Egil.
[With a shriek.] Mother is with them.
Dagny.
All good spirits!
