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Örnulf.
I bring you back little Egil.
All.
[One to another.] Egil! Egil alive!
Gunnar.
[Letting his sword fall.] Woe is me! what have I done?
Dagny.
Oh, Thorolf, my brother!
Sigurd.
I knew it! I knew it!
Örnulf.
[Setting Egil down.] There, Gunnar, hast thou thy pretty boy again.
Egil.
Father! Old Örnulf would not do me ill, as thou saidst when I went away.
Örnulf.
[To Hiördis.] Now have I atoned for thy father; now surely there may be peace between us.
Hiördis.
[With repressed emotion.] Mayhap!
Gunnar.
[As if waking up.] Is it a hideous dream that maddens me! Thou—thou bringest Egil home!
Örnulf.
As thou seest; but in truth he has been near his death.
