Chapter 6

[BLANKA, GANDALF from the right.]

GANDALF. [Aside.] It is too late!

BLANKA. O, there he is again! What do you want?

GANDALF. Quick,--quick, away from here!

BLANKA. What do you mean?

GANDALF. Away! There's danger here!

BLANKA. What danger?

GANDALF. Death!

BLANKA. I do not understand you.

GANDALF. I thought to hide it from you,--hence I went To call my people to the ship again And sail away; you never should have known,-- The trumpet warns me that it is too late,-- That they are coming.

BLANKA. Who are coming?

GANDALF. Then know,-- The strangers who once harried on the isle Were vikings like myself.

BLANKA. From Norway?

GANDALF. Yes. My father, who was chief among them, fell,-- Hence must he be avenged.

BLANKA. Avenged?

GANDALF. Such is The custom.

BLANKA. Ah, I see now!

GANDALF. Here they come! Stand close behind me!

BLANKA. Man of blood,--away!

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