Category: Plays/Films/Dramas
ODIN He sleeps, yet restive still; with eyelids squint Through which his eyes, in dreams still shifting, flash Like flame through knot-holes. Yet he sleeps; beside him His wild pack, crouching, share his chain.—A lull: Betwixt moonset and sunrise, one at least, One lull in tha...
_On the left, a green bank and a pool, back of which is a thicket; on the right, a vista, beneath boughs, of a distant volcano, rising through the wet light of dawn._
1. SCENE II. _The same; night.ODIN He sleeps, yet restive still; with eyelids squint Through which his eyes, in dreams still shifting, flash Like flame through knot-holes. Yet he sleeps; beside him His wild...
4. SCENE I: A prison chamber, dim, built of stone_On the right stands a high, framed tapestry, the design partly worked; beside it, on a table, several harps and instruments of music. On the left, extending centre, the half-co...
3. SCENE II: The interior of Egil’s lodge in the_The room is roughly built of logs, long cross-beams overhead. From these (in the right corner, back) hang suspended the bodies and skins of antelope, bear, and wild game; and b...
2. SCENE I: Outside a tribal temple._The gable beams are low; only the entrance end of the building, set at an angle, on the left, is visible. In the distance rises a snow-capped volcano, its slopes—in the nearer...
7. ACT IVEGIL Put it away? To put all from me—all— Or else despoil! Renounce, or with a kiss Consume the bright seduction! Mar—relinquish, In either path, to suffer; yet to see Myself at...
5. SCENE II[_The curtain rises presently upon the same: a taper burns low_. THORDIS, _seated with a harp, is playing; near her_ EGIL _stands amid the block ruins. Ceasing to play, Thordis...