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Page 11
(_Curtain_)
ACT II
(_A cave by_ KOLBEIN's _stream. The stage represents a small vale with
the cave in the background. The cave is large and deep, opening in the
direction of the spectator. Water has been coursing down the vale and
has frozen to knolls of ice here and there. A part of the cave-mouth is
hidden by icicles formed by the water trickling from the rock above the
cave. Snow is falling heavily and drifting. This continues throughout
the act_.)
(BRAND KOLBEINSSON, BRODDI, ALF, DEACON SIGURD, HELGI SKAFTASON, EINAR
THE RICH, _and six others enter_.)
_Alf_.--A cursed ill weather this!
_Sigurd_.--The great drift-ice must be near!
_Brand_.--But there is shelter in this cave here, and here we shall stay
awhile.
_Einar_.--A witch-storm this is, and we have lost our way!
_Broddi_.--The weather is cold and fit for men. We would do well to use
our stay here for coming to an agreement about our attack on Thorolf
Bjarnason; because home he journeyed, even if Lady Helga assured us to
the contrary.
_Einar_.--Let us make away with the new chief of the Eyafirthings!
_Brand_.--For me it is not seeming to be in this undertaking, having
sworn an eternal truce to Thorolf.
_Broddi_.--But none of us others have.
_Helgi Skaftason_.--I am not your slave, Brand Kolbeinsson; and if I may
not avenge the insults Thorolf has inflicted on you, I shall no longer
be your follower, either.
_Broddi_.--All your men will desert you, if you permit them not to
avenge you on Thorolf.
_Brand_.--What would men say if my followers broke a pledged truce?
_Alf_.--A truce under compulsion it was, with sixty men, but a few steps
away.
_Einar_.--Slight is your recollection concerning the murder of Kalf the
son of Guttorm!
_Brand_.--It is better to suffer than to do ill.
_Broddi_.--It is seeming to a chieftain to commit deeds of injustice and
highhandedness, so soon as need be for them; but not to suffer them of
others.
_Brand_.--What need is there that we kill Thorolf Bjarnason now rather
than before?
_Broddi_.--He is now set as lord over Eyafirth. He is our enemy, and as
it is the Eyafirthings have grievances against us.
_Alf_.--For their shameful defeat at Orlygsstad and the fall of their
chieftains.
_Broddi_.--The Eyafirthings will assail us from the east under Thorolf,
and Thord Kakali from the west. The henchmen of Lady Helga will stand by
Thorolf, and not by you, Brand.
_Brand_.--But Gissur Thorvaldsson will come to my help over the
mountains from the south.
_Broddi_.--An ill thing, to have Gissur as one's only friend. He is no
warrior, keeps no promise, and dares not to fight.
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