when such deeds seem to lure me. Doubtless it is in my blood—for I am of the race of the Jötuns,[1] they say.—Come, sit thou here, Dagny. Far hast thou wandered in these five long years; tell me, thou hast ofttimes been a guest in the halls of kings?
Dagny.
Many a time—and chiefly with Æthelstan of England.
Hiördis.
And everywhere thou hast been held in honour, and hast sat in the highest seats at the board?
Dagny.
Doubtless. As Sigurd's wife
Hiördis.
Ay, ay—a famous man is Sigurd—though Gunnar stands above him.
Dagny.
Gunnar?
Hiördis.
One deed did Gunnar do that Sigurd shrank from. But let that be! Tell me, when Sigurd went a-viking and thou with him, when thou didst hear the sword-blades sing in the fierce war-game, when the blood streamed red on the deck—came there not over thee an untameable longing to plunge into the strife? Didst thou not don harness and take up arms?
- ↑ The giants or Titans of Scandinavian mythology.
