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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!
FIRST GI
