HJØRDIS.
Blodnatten er altid den værste; – når den er over, så går det nok. Ved skændig list har Ørnulf fremmet sin hævn; i åben strid vilde han ikke gå mod os, lod som han var forligeligt sindet, og falder så over vort værgeløse barn! Ha, jeg så mere grant end I; jeg tænkte nok, at Ørnulf var ond og underfundig; vel havde jeg årsag til at ægge dig mod ham og al hans falske æt!
HIÖRDIS. This first night
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is ever the worst;--Örnulf has sought his revenge by shameful wiles; he would not come against us in open strife; he feigned to be peacefully-minded; and then he falls upon our defenceless child! Ha, I saw more clearly than ye; well I deemed that Örnulf was evil-minded and false; I had good cause to egg thee on against him and all his faithless tribe!
1. Literally the “blood-night.”
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