1905
TO
NORMAN HAPGOOD
CRITIC AND FRIEND
CHARACTERS
OF THE PROLOGUE
ODIN
BALDUR
THOR
LOKI
FENRIS
FENRIS'S PACK
FREYJA
OF THE PLAY
INGIMUND, Priest of Odin
EGIL, a Hunter
ARFI, a Dwarf, his brother
YORUL, liegeman of Egil
ROLF, liegeman of Egil
ERIC, liegeman of Egil
WULDOR, liegeman of Arfi
A LITTLE BOY
THORDIS, daughter of Ingimund and priestess of Odin's temple
FRIDA, one of her Virgins
A LITTLE GIRL
FOLK, PRIESTS, VIRGINS, CHILDREN
THE PROLOGUE.
The crater of a volcano; dawn .
ACT FIRST. SCENE I.
The rune-stone of Odin, outside a tribal temple; morning .
SCENE II.
Egil's lodge in the forest; toward twilight .
ACT SECOND. SCENE I.
A prison chamber; day .
SCENE II.
The same; night .
ACT THIRD.
A forest glade; the pool of Freyja; early morning .
ACT FOURTH.
The rune-stone again; sunset .
TIME AND PLACE
The Age of Northern Mythology; Iceland. The incidents of the play are conceived as taking place within the cycle of a year .
THE PROLOGUE
Foreground — a frozen crater
At back, a cavern. Overhanging this, at left and back, snow-crusted cliffs, partly bared by the winds, stand out against the stars .
On one of these , ODIN seated; on his shoulders, two ravens. Beneath him, in the crater and cavern, half-discernible , FENRIS and his PACK.
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A silent pause, during which the first pale signs of dawn appear on the crags. Odin whispers to the ravens on his shoulders and they fly away. He sits motionless and serene
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Gazes again on FENRIS.]
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Fenris wakes
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Odin, covering his face, turns away and disappears behind the crag. Fenris, with his pack, retires into the cavern, dragging his chain. Outside BALDUR is heard singing, joined, in chorus, by the voices of nature on whom he calls
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[FREYJA enters, looking fearfully around her
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He leads her impetuously away from the crater toward the sunrise
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He draws her farther away
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The rattle of Fenris's manacles echoes in the crater
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His face turning wistful with a beautiful light, lifts his obstructive spear, and stands from the path
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He watches with the look of wistfulness as Freyja and Baldur, springing to the brink of the crater, gaze down upon Fenris
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Freyja lets fall some of her flowers into the crater
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Clinging to Baldur, she gazes with fascinated awe upon Fenris, who, pacing ever in and out, amid his involving Pack, with the swift, incessant shuttle movement of a caged wild thing, upturns his shifting eyes in yearning
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Half wildly, whispers at Baldur's ear
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Swinging from the brink of the crater, he lets himself down. As he descends, Fenris springs toward him to the limit of his chain
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Holding out his chain to Baldur
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Craftily beckoning Baldur under the shadow of a cleft
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Odin beckons to the eastward with his spear. From the distance comes a flash of fire and faint thunder
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By a dazzling river of light and thunder-peal, the whole scene is riven. On the peaks at either side appear LOKI and THOR. Loki holds in his hand a serpentine whip of many lashes, as of glittering brass; Thor, a white hammer. The Pack cower, moaning; Fenris stands glaring, with head bent backward as in sudden pain
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Held by his chain, Fenris flees wildly in circles, and seeking to hide himself, finally crouches in terror, centre. He is prevented from entering the cavern by Thor, who stands there
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As Loki swings his whip of fire, the Pack beneath fall on their faces. Amid them Fenris crouches at half stature. Baldur and Freyja kneel as frozen, with lifted hands toward Odin. Thus in sudden twilight and silence, fine silent lashes of unintermittent lightning uncoil and coil, as the scourge is whirled, around the cringing body of the wolf. A shudder only reveals his extreme pangs
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Some fawning toward Odin, others seeking protection of Fenris
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As Fenris, by a gesture of rage, drives these from him into the cavern, Thor raises his hammer. Immediate night shuts out the scene. In this surge of darkness the deep rolling of thunder swells and culminates, as by waves, in the blank burst of the thunder-bolt. Through a half-lull, amid moaning of the Pack, are heard voices from the crater
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The thunder dies away. Sudden dawn breaks, ripening soon to daylight. Within the crater, Freyja is revealed, standing over the exhausted form of Fenris
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Faintly, as from a great distance, there rises a sound of many voices crying, "Odin! Asa Odin!" and the rumour of beasts in pain
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To Odin
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In faint lightning and thunder, Loki and Thor disappear. Odin ascends the crater, followed by Baldur and Freyja. Climbing together the steep slope, these two look backward upon the prostrate wolf who, following them with his eyes, moves not until they reach the summit. There against a sky of sunlit storm, Freyja pauses and stretches forth her arm to him
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As Freyja and the gods pass from sight beyond the cliffs, Fenris gnaws at his chain in inarticulate fury
ACT I
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 background — pied with the young leaves and blossoms of early spring; against these, jutting from behind the temple, a gallows-tree. On the right, at back, a solitary pine of great age sways solemn boughs over half the scene, the centre of which is occupied by a vast monolith, or boulder, tapering upward to a jagged end. The face of this stone, graved deeply with runes, is ( on its lower half ) dark carmine and smooth as ivory; from behind it blue smoke is rising; before it stands an altar of stone, on which is set a silver bowl .
In front of this altar stands INGIMUND, the temple priest, clad in a sleeveless leathern smock to the knees; his arms are reddened with sacrifice; from his throat — beneath his long, grey hair — hangs an image of Odin; on his right wrist a ring of plain gold; in his left hand a spear. On either side of him an altar priest holds a bunch of sprinkling twigs. From the temple four other priests are bearing a slaughtered bullock to the fire behind the rune-stone. Massed in the right foreground are EGIL and his men; on the left , ARFI and his men. Egil, noble of stature, stands moodily filing the grooves of a crossbow; Arfi, bent and dwarfed, sits with his ear close to a harp, which he thrums softly .
From the right background, beneath the pine, enters, singing, a procession of the folk, escorting an ark on wheels, drawn by oxen, whose flanks are wreathed with flowers, and whose horns are adorned with gold. Following the ark, which passes on into the temple, horses and sheep are led to the sacrifice. These, as they pass before him, Ingimund marks with the sign of a spear, while the altar priests sprinkle them with blood from the silver bowl .
At the entrance of the temple stand THORDIS and her VIRGINS, who take from the beasts their garlands and hang them on the doors and outer walls. The men and women of the throng, chanting to a barbaric cadence, lift up their arms and faces to the sky .
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The followers, from either side, spring forward and fight fiercely. Ingimund strikes among them with his spear
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Leaving her maidens, Thordis comes quietly from the temple and stands before the rune-stone and Ingimund, who, with his spear, beckons also Egil and Arfi. As these join Thordis, the altar priests, with a heavy chain of gold, enclose the four in a circular space, while the folk chant as before
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Thunder; storm gathers and the scene grows darker, as bigger clouds of smoke roll upward from behind the rune-stone
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As Egil and Arfi grasp the ring, lightning begins to play over the scene, and thunder deepens the voices of the people
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Lifting his face and spear toward the sky, intones
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Amid supernatural darkness and thunder-peal, Ingimund, Thordis, Egil, and Arfi are struck to the earth, and all the people flee, except Yorul and Frida, who crouch beside the temple
In the distance
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She falls unconscious. Egil, who has risen with the gold altar chain wound about him, gnaws it
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Enter Yorul and a LEECH, followed by the folk
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Wuldor and the folk whisper among themselves. Yorul supports Frida toward the temple
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Taking Frida from Yorul, the temple virgins lead her into the temple
To Wuldor
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Returning dazed from the temple
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Egil, who, with fixed gaze, has been eyeing Thordis, starts wildly, paces back and forth, dragging the altar chain as he moves
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Springing forward, Egil seizes Thordis's hand, which he raises to his lips
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He bites her hand. Screaming, she draws away from him and clings to the dwarf
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Facing Egil
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Seizing Yorul's arm, points at Egil
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With a gesture of fury, Egil rushes upon Arfi
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Stays him
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Quietly
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As Arfi binds her hand, gazes on Thordis, whose eyes have closed
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Clutching the air, in passion for coherence
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Drawing
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Murmur
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Falling back
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Stands alone in a great circle
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The men hesitate; then all — except twelve, including Yorul, who step into the circle — depart fearfully
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The folk cry out; some go from the scene, others into the temple
Seizing up with both hands the silver bowl
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Egil drinks from the silver bowl
SCENE II:
The interior of Egil's lodge in the forest; toward twilight.
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 beneath these — piled upon a bench against the wall — a heap of furs and hides. Centre, back, a door. Left, in the earthen floor, a hearth with ashes; above it, a hole in the roof. Beyond this hearth, left, sitting at the open window , FRIDA, alone. She looks out dreamily toward the forest, from which horns echo and answer. Suddenly she starts up, gazes intently, gives a low cry, and, dodging down as she passes the window, springs across to the heap of hides, among which she conceals herself. After a pause, the door opens; EGIL enters, panting — evidently pursued. His brow is bleeding, and he limps. Turning to bar the door, he lets fall a bloodied wolf's skin. Immediately he snatches it up caressingly; gazes around, listens enraged to the horns, limps swiftly to the hearth, hesitates; then, as a sudden horn-blast resounds close by, falls on his knees, digs ferociously in the ashes with his two hands like an animal, thrusts the wolf's skin in the cavity, and covers it over with the ashes, carefully replacing the charred brands on top. Swiftly, then, binding up his bleeding brow and thigh, he unbars the door, seizes a whip from a corner, and springs stealthily out of the window. At the same moment, horses are heard to gallop up to the lodge; the door bursts open; YORUL and ROLF appear on the sill .
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Exit
As Yorul is following Rolf, Frida steps forward
Speaks low
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In amazement
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She goes to the hearth
In scorn
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She brushes back the ashes, revealing the beast's head
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Drops the hide and steps back
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Enter, with his followers, Egil, cracking his whip
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4 sentences
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Pointing at Yorul, who holds up the skin
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Leaping upon Yorul, flings him to the ground
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Coming forward
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With the others' help, separates the two
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Aside to Eric
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Craftily
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Taking the pelt from Yorul, he drops it on the hearth
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With his foot, covering the pelt with the ashes
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Gather round Yorul
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Aside
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Looks keenly at Rolf
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Suddenly changing
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He springs to the window
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To whom Egil clings
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5 sentences
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At the window
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Aside to men
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Swinging his whip
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Striking Rolf
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Imploring
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6 sentences
using
109 chars
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Follows the men, lashing them
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10 chars
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Aside
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23 chars
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The men go forth, whipped wildly by EGIL, who sinks exhausted by the closed door
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63 chars
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Outside
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Starts for the door
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[EGIL, rolling in her way, gazes at her, and rises, panting; she draws back
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3 sentences
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She faints
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24 chars
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Lifting her in his arms, he bears her off, left
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3 sentences
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44 chars
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A pause; sunset glows through the window; the outer door is partly opened by Rolf, who calls in
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34 words
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8 sentences
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188 chars
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Exit, closing the door. Another pause; the room grows dimmer; Egil slowly reënters, left
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44 words
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6 sentences
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251 chars
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As Egil goes to the hearth, enter INGIMUND, THORDIS, WULDOR, and a number of Arfi's men, carrying a litter, on which lies ARFI; these accompanied by Yorul, Rolf, Eric, and Egil's men
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By the litter
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Gazing at Thordis
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3 sentences
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Some kneel, some kiss her robe; all give to her their eyes and hearts unconsciously
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39 chars
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Aside
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3 sentences
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3 sentences
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27 chars
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1 word
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2 sentences
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39 chars
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3 words
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23 words
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6 sentences
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109 chars
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To Rolf
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5 chars
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Exit Yorul, left; Egil approaches Arfi's litter
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14 chars
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2 sentences
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3 sentences
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12 words
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3 sentences
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Reënter Yorul. He staggers forward
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3 words
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2 sentences
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2 sentences
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17 words
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4 sentences
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93 chars
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Wildly
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8 words
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4 sentences
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49 chars
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1 word
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8 chars
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1 word
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2 sentences
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15 chars
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Crouching back
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2 words
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3 sentences
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29 chars
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Grappling Egil, tears off his bandages
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4 sentences
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109 chars
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4 sentences
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Falling away
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3 sentences
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118 chars
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Glares about him in fear and rage
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4 sentences
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45 chars
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2 sentences
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61 chars
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4 words
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3 sentences
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28 chars
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3 sentences
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54 chars
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9 words
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3 sentences
using
54 chars
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Exit, left
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3 words
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2 sentences
using
26 chars
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To Wuldor, who is about to attack Egil with a spear
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8 words
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3 sentences
using
74 chars
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Raises his body painfully on the litter
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5 words
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2 sentences
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53 chars
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4 words
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2 sentences
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22 chars
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5 words
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2 sentences
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20 words
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3 sentences
using
93 chars
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2 words
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2 sentences
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15 chars
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21 words
in
3 sentences
using
130 chars
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Lowering her voice
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3 words
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2 sentences
using
21 chars
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Faintly
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1 word
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2 sentences
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30 chars
.
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36 words
in
4 sentences
using
231 chars
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As the men approach with fetters, Egil seizes a chain from one, and, springing fearfully to Thordis's side, there crouches and lifts it to her
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4 words
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2 sentences
using
23 chars
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Thordis puts the chain upon Egil
ACT II
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-completed model of a structure resembling the temple in Act I, Scene I; beside it, wooden blocks and miniature beams; in front of it a stone tablet, upon which EGIL — stooped, with an instrument in his hand — is laboriously carving runes. Behind him stands ARFI, at times guiding the hand of his brother, who is evidently being overcome by weariness, against which he struggles for concentration. Finally Egil's head droops, his hand falls, and his body sinks prone. At the door , THORDIS enters .
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3 sentences
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66 chars
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4 words
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2 sentences
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35 chars
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Sighs unconsciously
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4 words
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2 sentences
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63 chars
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22 words
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2 sentences
using
131 chars
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7 words
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2 sentences
using
87 chars
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75 words
in
3 sentences
using
436 chars
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4 words
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2 sentences
using
63 chars
.
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9 words
in
3 sentences
using
61 chars
.
Contains
34 words
in
4 sentences
using
183 chars
.
Contains
74 words
in
3 sentences
using
443 chars
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Contains
45 words
in
3 sentences
using
257 chars
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Contains
7 words
in
2 sentences
using
84 chars
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In his sleep, Egil moans
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2 sentences
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89 chars
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2 sentences
using
39 chars
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14 words
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3 sentences
using
112 chars
.
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66 words
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2 sentences
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362 chars
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37 words
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2 sentences
using
215 chars
.
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28 words
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2 sentences
using
152 chars
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Egil cries out again
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28 words
in
6 sentences
using
174 chars
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Smiling
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5 words
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2 sentences
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75 chars
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5 words
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2 sentences
using
46 chars
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4 words
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2 sentences
using
74 chars
.
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9 words
in
2 sentences
using
62 chars
.
Contains
42 words
in
2 sentences
using
287 chars
.
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12 words
in
3 sentences
using
94 chars
.
Egil moans
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1 word
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2 sentences
using
7 chars
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Low, in his sleep
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1 word
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2 sentences
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15 chars
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3 words
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2 sentences
using
30 chars
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1 word
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2 sentences
using
44 chars
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4 words
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3 sentences
using
75 chars
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4 words
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2 sentences
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35 chars
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6 words
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2 sentences
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73 chars
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2 words
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2 sentences
using
18 chars
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Starting to his feet
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1 word
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2 sentences
using
29 chars
.
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4 words
in
2 sentences
using
52 chars
.
Crouched, pacing to and fro
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30 words
in
4 sentences
using
163 chars
.
Contains
9 words
in
2 sentences
using
49 chars
.
Looking, with closed eyes, as toward a height
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29 words
in
4 sentences
using
161 chars
.
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5 words
in
2 sentences
using
27 chars
.
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4 words
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2 sentences
using
50 chars
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In sudden terror, seeking to fly
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4 words
in
5 sentences
using
27 chars
.
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2 words
in
2 sentences
using
42 chars
.
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12 words
in
2 sentences
using
107 chars
.
Defiantly
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3 words
in
2 sentences
using
24 chars
.
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4 words
in
2 sentences
using
47 chars
.
Contains
4 words
in
2 sentences
using
21 chars
.
Swaying with anguish, as under the blows of a scourge, he sinks upon the floor, overwhelmed and quivering
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3 words
in
1 sentence
using
42 chars
.
Contains
5 words
in
4 sentences
using
35 chars
.
Gradually waking, rises to his knees
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1 word
in
2 sentences
using
50 chars
.
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11 words
in
2 sentences
using
63 chars
.
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13 words
in
3 sentences
using
88 chars
.
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2 words
in
2 sentences
using
95 chars
.
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16 words
in
2 sentences
using
80 chars
.
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13 words
in
3 sentences
using
61 chars
.
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1 word
in
2 sentences
using
28 chars
.
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3 words
in
2 sentences
using
48 chars
.
Contains
80 words
in
9 sentences
using
428 chars
.
Contains
12 words
in
3 sentences
using
75 chars
.
Contains
37 words
in
3 sentences
using
228 chars
.
Contains
22 words
in
4 sentences
using
158 chars
.
Contains
94 words
in
5 sentences
using
521 chars
.
Contains
52 words
in
3 sentences
using
254 chars
.
Contains
2 words
in
1 sentence
using
48 chars
.
Contains
26 words
in
2 sentences
using
161 chars
.
Contains
6 words
in
4 sentences
using
63 chars
.
Taking up, among the instruments, a reed-pipe
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11 words
in
3 sentences
using
67 chars
.
Sitting beside the block temple, Arfi begins to play upon the reed
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3 words
in
1 sentence
using
30 chars
.
Contains
17 words
in
3 sentences
using
117 chars
.
Contains
9 words
in
3 sentences
using
69 chars
.
Contains
53 words
in
11 sentences
using
293 chars
.
Taking hands, they dance whilst Arfi blows the mellow pipe. Eager, impetuous, Egil becomes kindled by the sound and motion till, in the midst, dropping Thordis's hand, he gropes toward the wall
Contains
11 words
in
5 sentences
using
81 chars
.
Stops playing, and rises
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4 words
in
2 sentences
using
60 chars
.
Contains
1 word
in
2 sentences
using
28 chars
.
Stumbling against the blocks
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3 words
in
2 sentences
using
47 chars
.
Contains
7 words
in
2 sentences
using
96 chars
.
Contains
66 words
in
12 sentences
using
392 chars
.
Contains
7 words
in
2 sentences
using
65 chars
.
Controlling himself, shudders
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2 words
in
2 sentences
using
37 chars
.
Contains
14 words
in
2 sentences
using
111 chars
.
Contains
14 words
in
4 sentences
using
97 chars
.
Going to the tapestry frame, while Egil joins Arfi, she begins to work upon the embroidery, observing from time to time their block-building
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9 words
in
4 sentences
using
45 chars
.
Contains
21 words
in
2 sentences
using
105 chars
.
Contains
10 words
in
2 sentences
using
70 chars
.
Contains
88 words
in
7 sentences
using
484 chars
.
Contains
4 words
in
3 sentences
using
57 chars
.
Contains
18 words
in
3 sentences
using
102 chars
.
Contains
16 words
in
3 sentences
using
99 chars
.
Contains
17 words
in
2 sentences
using
91 chars
.
Egil's structure falls
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7 words
in
4 sentences
using
47 chars
.
Contains
41 words
in
3 sentences
using
222 chars
.
Contains
6 words
in
2 sentences
using
28 chars
.
Contains
21 words
in
2 sentences
using
138 chars
.
Contains
2 words
in
2 sentences
using
12 chars
.
Contains
22 words
in
2 sentences
using
133 chars
.
Contains
4 words
in
2 sentences
using
22 chars
.
Contains
4 words
in
2 sentences
using
49 chars
.
Contains
22 words
in
5 sentences
using
112 chars
.
Contains
2 words
in
2 sentences
using
32 chars
.
Contains
3 words
in
2 sentences
using
57 chars
.
She shakes her head and smiles
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3 words
in
3 sentences
using
17 chars
.
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2 words
in
2 sentences
using
35 chars
.
Contains
12 words
in
3 sentences
using
95 chars
.
Contains
44 words
in
3 sentences
using
239 chars
.
Enter WULDOR; he goes to Arfi and speaks aside
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2 words
in
2 sentences
using
12 chars
.
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1 word
in
1 sentence
using
19 chars
.
Contains
2 words
in
2 sentences
using
30 chars
.
Contains
17 words
in
3 sentences
using
126 chars
.
Contains
6 words
in
2 sentences
using
54 chars
.
Exit Wuldor
Whom Arfi approaches, with a warning gesture
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3 words
in
2 sentences
using
12 chars
.
Aside
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8 words
in
2 sentences
using
53 chars
.
Contains
5 words
in
2 sentences
using
36 chars
.
Contains
30 words
in
4 sentences
using
177 chars
.
Leaving the tapestry
Contains
13 words
in
3 sentences
using
64 chars
.
Contains
9 words
in
2 sentences
using
62 chars
.
Exeunt
Solus
Contains
182 words
in
9 sentences
using
1014 chars
.
Enter YORUL.]
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4 words
in
3 sentences
using
60 chars
.
As Egil starts up, bows himself at his feet
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2 words
in
2 sentences
using
22 chars
.
Contains
14 words
in
3 sentences
using
88 chars
.
Contains
1 word
in
1 sentence
using
10 chars
.
Contains
4 words
in
2 sentences
using
27 chars
.
Turning upward his face
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2 words
in
2 sentences
using
44 chars
.
Dreamily
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4 words
in
3 sentences
using
80 chars
.
Contains
15 words
in
2 sentences
using
100 chars
.
Contains
6 words
in
2 sentences
using
33 chars
.
Contains
3 words
in
2 sentences
using
53 chars
.
Contains
15 words
in
3 sentences
using
86 chars
.
Contains
29 words
in
5 sentences
using
206 chars
.
Contains
4 words
in
2 sentences
using
31 chars
.
Contains
90 words
in
4 sentences
using
495 chars
.
Contains
13 words
in
4 sentences
using
87 chars
.
Contains
80 words
in
7 sentences
using
404 chars
.
Contains
10 words
in
2 sentences
using
55 chars
.
Contains
5 words
in
1 sentence
using
37 chars
.
Contains
13 words
in
3 sentences
using
117 chars
.
Contains
5 words
in
2 sentences
using
26 chars
.
Contains
30 words
in
6 sentences
using
208 chars
.
Contains
4 words
in
1 sentence
using
18 chars
.
Contains
2 words
in
2 sentences
using
28 chars
.
Contains
4 words
in
1 sentence
using
51 chars
.
Laughing
Contains
8 words
in
2 sentences
using
53 chars
.
Contains
3 words
in
1 sentence
using
23 chars
.
Contains
51 words
in
6 sentences
using
270 chars
.
Contains
10 words
in
2 sentences
using
60 chars
.
Beginning to pace back and forth
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1 word
in
2 sentences
using
22 chars
.
Contains
20 words
in
3 sentences
using
126 chars
.
Contains
1 word
in
2 sentences
using
38 chars
.
Contains
8 words
in
2 sentences
using
87 chars
.
Contains
1 word
in
2 sentences
using
40 chars
.
Contains
23 words
in
4 sentences
using
158 chars
.
Contains
1 word
in
2 sentences
using
23 chars
.
Contains
25 words
in
5 sentences
using
160 chars
.
Contains
1 word
in
2 sentences
using
33 chars
.
Contains
13 words
in
2 sentences
using
109 chars
.
Contains
1 word
in
2 sentences
using
5 chars
.
Contains
17 words
in
1 sentence
using
90 chars
.
Draws nearer and whispers
Contains
62 words
in
9 sentences
using
370 chars
.
Contains
4 words
in
2 sentences
using
44 chars
.
Contains
2 words
in
2 sentences
using
60 chars
.
Contains
4 words
in
2 sentences
using
24 chars
.
Contains
4 words
in
2 sentences
using
49 chars
.
They look long at each other
Contains
4 words
in
4 sentences
using
84 chars
.
Contains
2 words
in
2 sentences
using
23 chars
.
Contains
31 words
in
3 sentences
using
205 chars
.
Raising his right arm
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23 words
in
2 sentences
using
124 chars
.
Contains
4 words
in
2 sentences
using
61 chars
.
Yorul covers his face, and exit
Contains
22 words
in
6 sentences
using
115 chars
.
Throwing himself down beside the temple of blocks, he destroys it, insensate, and crouches, laughing, amid the ruins
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 rises, looks at Egil ( who stands oblivious ), passes silently to the window and looks out .
Contains
4 words
in
2 sentences
using
19 chars
.
Stirs as from a trance
Contains
60 words
in
7 sentences
using
369 chars
.
Contains
11 words
in
2 sentences
using
87 chars
.
Contains
155 words
in
17 sentences
using
847 chars
.
Contains
4 words
in
2 sentences
using
48 chars
.
Contains
4 words
in
2 sentences
using
22 chars
.
Contains
26 words
in
4 sentences
using
172 chars
.
Giving him the harp
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6 words
in
2 sentences
using
30 chars
.
At the door, as they clasp hands
Contains
3 words
in
3 sentences
using
24 chars
.
Exit
Contains
96 words
in
14 sentences
using
552 chars
.
Lifting the harp
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9 words
in
4 sentences
using
107 chars
.
Fiercely he plucks out several strings
Contains
4 words
in
2 sentences
using
40 chars
.
Pausing
Contains
7 words
in
2 sentences
using
84 chars
.
Wrenching with both hands the harp's frame, he breaks it in halves, and exultant, raises them above his head, with a great breath
Contains
1 word
in
2 sentences
using
49 chars
.
ACT III
SCENE: A forest glade
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 .
Outside
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4 words
in
3 sentences
using
21 chars
.
Outside
Contains
6 words
in
4 sentences
using
46 chars
.
Enter, right , EGIL, running. He is completely surrounded and swarmed over by little children in bright spring garb. One little girl has climbed upon his shoulder, where she clings
Contains
6 words
in
5 sentences
using
37 chars
.
Contains
29 words
in
5 sentences
using
198 chars
.
Taking hands, dance about him, singing
Contains
27 words
in
4 sentences
using
197 chars
.
Contains
27 words
in
4 sentences
using
198 chars
.
He lies down, pretending death; each child places his foot upon him, with a shout. At this he springs up, laughing, seizes a little boy and girl, and, seating himself on a log, places them on his knees. The others cluster about him
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7 words
in
3 sentences
using
38 chars
.
Contains
4 words
in
2 sentences
using
63 chars
.
Contains
9 words
in
2 sentences
using
58 chars
.
Contains
4 words
in
2 sentences
using
15 chars
.
Contains
4 words
in
3 sentences
using
38 chars
.
Contains
7 words
in
2 sentences
using
79 chars
.
Contains
9 words
in
2 sentences
using
61 chars
.
Contains
4 words
in
2 sentences
using
20 chars
.
Contains
2 words
in
2 sentences
using
32 chars
.
Contains
4 words
in
3 sentences
using
23 chars
.
Contains
2 words
in
2 sentences
using
37 chars
.
Severally
Contains
13 words
in
3 sentences
using
130 chars
.
Contains
3 words
in
2 sentences
using
35 chars
.
Takes both her hands, smiling
Contains
2 words
in
2 sentences
using
53 chars
.
Contains
12 words
in
2 sentences
using
116 chars
.
Egil drops her hands and rises
Contains
10 words
in
2 sentences
using
43 chars
.
Vassal-like to the little boy
Contains
16 words
in
3 sentences
using
74 chars
.
Contains
8 words
in
3 sentences
using
75 chars
.
To the children
Contains
4 words
in
3 sentences
using
56 chars
.
Contains
25 words
in
4 sentences
using
138 chars
.
Running from the little boy
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4 words
in
3 sentences
using
21 chars
.
Passing left into the wood, they are seen for some time gathering flowers and watching, in their game, the stealthy approachments of the little boy
Contains
42 words
in
5 sentences
using
238 chars
.
Looking up into the tree-tops, he laughs again
Contains
51 words
in
7 sentences
using
284 chars
.
Flinging himself upon the bank
Contains
68 words
in
3 sentences
using
422 chars
.
Where he lies thus rapt in the sylvan landscape, the first sunlight breaks through the wood, and by it the SHADOW of a man is thrown sharply, from the left, across the reclining form of Egil. At the same time, from the right, is heard Arfi's voice, singing
Contains
17 words
in
1 sentence
using
105 chars
.
Contains
18 words
in
3 sentences
using
104 chars
.
Slowly having risen to his feet, Egil perceives the human shadow and starts
Contains
1 word
in
2 sentences
using
64 chars
.
The shadow recedes, left, from the scene
Contains
4 words
in
3 sentences
using
102 chars
.
Contains
15 words
in
2 sentences
using
113 chars
.
Contains
17 words
in
2 sentences
using
93 chars
.
Contains
21 words
in
6 sentences
using
163 chars
.
Calls outside
Contains
1 word
in
2 sentences
using
44 chars
.
Pausing
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1 word
in
2 sentences
using
58 chars
.
Enter, right , THORDIS and ARFI. They are dressed in white, the dwarf being quaintly garlanded. They are followed by WULDOR. Thordis goes gaily toward Egil, extending both her hands
Contains
43 words
in
8 sentences
using
239 chars
.
Taking her hands, he still looks off left
Contains
1 word
in
2 sentences
using
37 chars
.
Contains
27 words
in
6 sentences
using
183 chars
.
Looking upon Thordis
Contains
1 word
in
2 sentences
using
49 chars
.
Quickly then turning away, speaks under his breath to Wuldor
Contains
4 words
in
2 sentences
using
74 chars
.
Contains
4 words
in
2 sentences
using
28 chars
.
Contains
38 words
in
4 sentences
using
234 chars
.
Aside to Wuldor
Contains
18 words
in
3 sentences
using
142 chars
.
Watches Wuldor off, left. Arfi, quietly looking at him, speaks to Thordis
Contains
4 words
in
2 sentences
using
22 chars
.
Contains
2 words
in
2 sentences
using
39 chars
.
Contains
5 words
in
2 sentences
using
83 chars
.
Smiling
Contains
10 words
in
2 sentences
using
90 chars
.
Contains
100 words
in
6 sentences
using
580 chars
.
The three hold hands
After a pause
Contains
20 words
in
3 sentences
using
135 chars
.
Loosening her hands with a laugh
Contains
5 words
in
2 sentences
using
71 chars
.
Speaks low, with a smile
Contains
9 words
in
3 sentences
using
59 chars
.
Contains
4 words
in
3 sentences
using
46 chars
.
Contains
41 words
in
3 sentences
using
207 chars
.
Contains
6 words
in
2 sentences
using
57 chars
.
Contains
7 words
in
3 sentences
using
38 chars
.
Contains
7 words
in
3 sentences
using
78 chars
.
Contains
21 words
in
3 sentences
using
140 chars
.
Contains
4 words
in
3 sentences
using
53 chars
.
Contains
1 word
in
2 sentences
using
7 chars
.
Embarrassed
Contains
4 words
in
2 sentences
using
23 chars
.
Contains
58 words
in
8 sentences
using
361 chars
.
Contains
14 words
in
3 sentences
using
92 chars
.
Contains
6 words
in
3 sentences
using
30 chars
.
Contains
10 words
in
2 sentences
using
86 chars
.
Contains
5 words
in
2 sentences
using
26 chars
.
Contains
12 words
in
2 sentences
using
85 chars
.
Contains
4 words
in
2 sentences
using
25 chars
.
Contains
65 words
in
9 sentences
using
359 chars
.
Returning to Egil, embraces him
Contains
42 words
in
5 sentences
using
215 chars
.
Exit, right
Contains
10 words
in
3 sentences
using
47 chars
.
Contains
8 words
in
2 sentences
using
44 chars
.
Contains
30 words
in
2 sentences
using
216 chars
.
Contains
6 words
in
2 sentences
using
29 chars
.
She reaches to him her hand; he does not take it
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64 words
in
11 sentences
using
362 chars
.
Contains
4 words
in
2 sentences
using
23 chars
.
Contains
71 words
in
4 sentences
using
452 chars
.
Contains
10 words
in
3 sentences
using
76 chars
.
Contains
4 words
in
2 sentences
using
46 chars
.
Contains
12 words
in
3 sentences
using
118 chars
.
Contains
84 words
in
5 sentences
using
422 chars
.
Contains
1 word
in
2 sentences
using
20 chars
.
Contains
7 words
in
2 sentences
using
55 chars
.
Contains
8 words
in
2 sentences
using
40 chars
.
Contains
1 word
in
2 sentences
using
54 chars
.
Contains
30 words
in
4 sentences
using
152 chars
.
Contains
4 words
in
2 sentences
using
17 chars
.
Contains
4 words
in
2 sentences
using
38 chars
.
After a pause
Contains
86 words
in
7 sentences
using
487 chars
.
Smiling
Contains
5 words
in
2 sentences
using
64 chars
.
On the edge of the scene, left, unobserved by them, reappears the human SHADOW.]
Slowly rises
Contains
2 words
in
2 sentences
using
12 chars
.
Contains
22 words
in
2 sentences
using
123 chars
.
He follows and sits beside her; the Shadow slowly moves toward them
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1 word
in
1 sentence
using
50 chars
.
Contains
8 words
in
2 sentences
using
50 chars
.
Contains
8 words
in
2 sentences
using
41 chars
.
The Shadow moves between them. EGIL starts tip with a cry
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6 words
in
3 sentences
using
80 chars
.
Contains
1 word
in
2 sentences
using
35 chars
.
Contains
2 words
in
2 sentences
using
53 chars
.
Contains
3 words
in
2 sentences
using
14 chars
.
Contains
4 words
in
2 sentences
using
33 chars
.
Contains
10 words
in
3 sentences
using
89 chars
.
Contains
19 words
in
4 sentences
using
82 chars
.
Contains
1 word
in
2 sentences
using
7 chars
.
Contains
81 words
in
4 sentences
using
429 chars
.
Contains
6 words
in
3 sentences
using
78 chars
.
Contains
13 words
in
3 sentences
using
91 chars
.
Contains
14 words
in
2 sentences
using
66 chars
.
Contains
7 words
in
2 sentences
using
55 chars
.
Contains
8 words
in
2 sentences
using
50 chars
.
Smiling
Contains
1 word
in
2 sentences
using
14 chars
.
Showing her hand
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3 words
in
3 sentences
using
34 chars
.
Contains
2 words
in
2 sentences
using
49 chars
.
Contains
4 words
in
2 sentences
using
78 chars
.
Contains
8 words
in
2 sentences
using
51 chars
.
Contains
3 words
in
2 sentences
using
18 chars
.
Contains
9 words
in
4 sentences
using
67 chars
.
Contains
14 words
in
3 sentences
using
92 chars
.
Contains
8 words
in
1 sentence
using
49 chars
.
Contains
4 words
in
2 sentences
using
16 chars
.
Contains
1 word
in
2 sentences
using
27 chars
.
Contains
48 words
in
5 sentences
using
326 chars
.
Contains
2 words
in
2 sentences
using
30 chars
.
Contains
43 words
in
2 sentences
using
243 chars
.
Low
Contains
2 words
in
2 sentences
using
33 chars
.
Contains
24 words
in
2 sentences
using
164 chars
.
Contains
10 words
in
3 sentences
using
101 chars
.
Contains
16 words
in
2 sentences
using
82 chars
.
Contains
10 words
in
2 sentences
using
56 chars
.
Contains
68 words
in
3 sentences
using
332 chars
.
Contains
5 words
in
2 sentences
using
45 chars
.
Contains
56 words
in
4 sentences
using
322 chars
.
Contains
8 words
in
2 sentences
using
37 chars
.
Contains
11 words
in
2 sentences
using
102 chars
.
Contains
22 words
in
5 sentences
using
115 chars
.
Contains
17 words
in
3 sentences
using
129 chars
.
Enter Wuldor, left; he goes to Egil
Contains
31 words
in
4 sentences
using
198 chars
.
Seizing Wuldor's wrists, speaks huskily
Contains
68 words
in
7 sentences
using
365 chars
.
Exit Wuldor, right, looking darkly
Contains
8 words
in
2 sentences
using
81 chars
.
Contains
67 words
in
5 sentences
using
422 chars
.
Breaks into laughter
Contains
4 words
in
2 sentences
using
20 chars
.
Contains
45 words
in
6 sentences
using
276 chars
.
Contains
4 words
in
2 sentences
using
46 chars
.
Contains
26 words
in
4 sentences
using
131 chars
.
Contains
8 words
in
2 sentences
using
46 chars
.
Contains
4 words
in
2 sentences
using
18 chars
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Contains
9 words
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Contains
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Points into the wood
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Contains
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Contains
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Gazing at him
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Contains
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7 sentences
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570 chars
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Enter right, in the background, Arfi; he pauses unseen
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5 words
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2 sentences
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Contains
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3 sentences
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Contains
6 words
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2 sentences
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Contains
4 words
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Contains
60 words
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6 sentences
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308 chars
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Contains
2 words
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2 sentences
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63 chars
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He kisses her. Arfi moves into the thicket and disappears. Thordis, putting Egil from her, draws a dagger upon herself
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3 sentences
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31 chars
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Seizing the knife from her
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3 sentences
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As he turns the knife upon himself, Thordis cries out
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Springing to her, beside the pool, he recoils
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45 chars
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Contains
20 words
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3 sentences
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Contains
5 words
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2 sentences
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Staring past Thordis into the pool
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46 words
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10 sentences
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295 chars
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He hurls the dagger into the pool. As he staggers back, Thordis rests his head on her shoulder
Contains
4 words
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2 sentences
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25 chars
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Far away, right, sing
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20 words
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3 sentences
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2 sentences
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Contains
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3 sentences
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Sing
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20 words
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Contains
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3 sentences
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Thordis shrinks from him
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3 sentences
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3 sentences
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3 sentences
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Contains
53 words
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3 sentences
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352 chars
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Breaking from him
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3 sentences
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She escapes, right, into the wood. As Egil pursues her, there steps from the thicket, into his path, Arfi. Egil pauses
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6 sentences
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Shields his eyes with his arms. As he does so, Arfi, with a serene gesture, is about to speak, when from the thicket Yorul springs silently out and stabs him. Arfi falls motionless; Yorul withdraws. Slowly Egil looks again
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4 sentences
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Stoops beside the body
Sing, near
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3 sentences
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Starting up, fearful, Egil hales the body toward the left, but having reached the centre pauses, as the laughter of children rises in the way before him. Turning, he is dragging the body down scene, when the children, scampering in, left, with their aprons and baskets full of wild flowers, run towards him. Finger on lip, he motions them silence; their laughter and shouts die away, awed
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5 sentences
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Whispering, gather in a circle and, pleased as at some game of mystery, heap the flowers upon Arfi, and sing low
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21 words
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8 sentences
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170 chars
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Treading softly, with covert laughter and "hushes," the children steal away. Heaped over the body of Arfi and completely concealing it, they have left behind them a great pile of arbutus, violets, and other flowers. Some of these Egil is replacing more carefully, when the pile is shaken from within, and up through it rises the form of BALDUR. Dazzled, Egil kneels
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Contains
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2 sentences
using
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2 sentences
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Egil sinks prostrate
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346 chars
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Hiding his face
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Contains
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2 sentences
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Contains
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4 sentences
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143 chars
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Contains
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2 sentences
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Contains
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2 sentences
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48 chars
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Starts up
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Contains
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2 sentences
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He sinks again into the flowers, and is gone
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11 words
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4 sentences
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97 chars
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From the left, two or three of the children return from the wood, and stand silent. From the right, the lutes and pipes of the bridal procession grow louder, and shortly enter the virgins , INGIMUND, Thordis, Wuldor, and others, as Egil still stands lost in soliloquy
Contains
29 words
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2 sentences
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Contains
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2 sentences
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Contains
18 words
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3 sentences
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Approaching her
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Contains
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4 sentences
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37 chars
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Contains
5 words
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2 sentences
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70 chars
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Contains
14 words
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2 sentences
using
87 chars
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Contains
2 words
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Contains
4 words
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2 sentences
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A little girl, moving back some of the flowers, has disclosed the dead body of Arfi, blood-stained
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4 words
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2 sentences
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55 chars
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Goes to it with a cry
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Contains
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2 sentences
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46 chars
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Contains
6 words
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3 sentences
using
34 chars
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Contains
28 words
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3 sentences
using
196 chars
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57 chars
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Entering from the thicket
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17 chars
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Starting up from the body
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26 chars
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Showing dagger
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2 sentences
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2 sentences
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49 chars
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Contains
4 words
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2 sentences
using
22 chars
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Contains
21 words
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2 sentences
using
131 chars
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Contains
13 words
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4 sentences
using
118 chars
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Turning upon Yorul
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3 words
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2 sentences
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46 chars
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To Egil
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7 words
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3 sentences
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93 chars
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Slowly
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4 words
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2 sentences
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56 chars
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Yorul is seized
ACT IV
SCENE: The rune-stone.
A white-rose bush, beside it, in bloom; a flame on the altar; sunset .
Enter EGIL, alone .
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163 words
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10 sentences
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878 chars
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Supplicating the rune-stone
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Pausing, he breaks a white rose, and holding it near and nearer the altar-flame watches it — as though for a sign — till it scorches; then snatching it back, extinguishes the flame. While he is bending over thus , THORDIS enters, — in her hands a rope of twined arbutus-flowers. All in white, she is very pale; approaching behind Egil, she watches over his shoulder the rose petals and the flame. Suddenly, throwing the rope of arbutus over his head, she winds it about him. Turning, he drops the rose, and they gaze at each other, anguished
After a silence
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6 words
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2 sentences
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Binding his arms down with the blossoms
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2 sentences
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1 word
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Contains
9 words
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2 sentences
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42 chars
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Contains
6 words
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2 sentences
using
33 chars
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Contains
6 words
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2 sentences
using
74 chars
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Contains
2 words
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2 sentences
using
38 chars
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Contains
1 word
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2 sentences
using
55 chars
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Contains
11 words
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3 sentences
using
122 chars
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Contains
41 words
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3 sentences
using
216 chars
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Contains
7 words
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2 sentences
using
83 chars
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Contains
64 words
in
6 sentences
using
371 chars
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Contains
27 words
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2 sentences
using
163 chars
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With a wan smile of pain, drawing him with the arbutus toward her
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3 words
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2 sentences
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50 chars
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Contains
13 words
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3 sentences
using
66 chars
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Contains
10 words
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2 sentences
using
67 chars
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Contains
9 words
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2 sentences
using
77 chars
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Contains
11 words
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3 sentences
using
91 chars
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Contains
8 words
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3 sentences
using
91 chars
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Contains
40 words
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7 sentences
using
251 chars
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Contains
18 words
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3 sentences
using
105 chars
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Clinging to him
Contains
7 words
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2 sentences
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52 chars
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Enter a procession of folk, virgins, and children, bearing a low bier, covered with a cloth of green, behind which walks YORUL, bound . INGIMUND, who enters first, ascends, by the stone steps, the altar, before which the bier is set down. While this is being borne, the dirge continues
Chant
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6 words
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5 sentences
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40 chars
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Ingimund signs to a priest to loosen the hands of Yotul, who stands in front of the bier
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12 words
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3 sentences
using
64 chars
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The priest hands to Yorul a cup, which, as he raises it quietly to his lips, is wrenched from his hand by Egil, who embraces him
Contains
10 words
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4 sentences
using
84 chars
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On the bier, the green cloth is thrown back, and BALDUR, rising, steps upon the altar . THORDIS gazes upon him
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10 words
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3 sentences
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50 chars
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Contains
1 word
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2 sentences
using
9 chars
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With a wild cry, going to him
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1 word
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2 sentences
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17 chars
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Prostrating themselves
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4 words
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3 sentences
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39 chars
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Thordis and Ingimund, by Baldur's side, are transfigured, and a hedge of flowers and flame springs up before the altar, encircling the three
Apart, drinks from the cup
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2 words
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2 sentences
using
59 chars
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Baldur and Thordis, clinging to each other, look at Egil
Staring at Baldur, speaks to Egil
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6 words
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2 sentences
using
39 chars
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Contains
59 words
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5 sentences
using
336 chars
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He sinks upon the bier
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5 words
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3 sentences
using
61 chars
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Striving to break the arbutus links, which hang loosely upon him, he falls back
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1 word
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2 sentences
using
30 chars
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Contains
4 words
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2 sentences
using
55 chars
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In sudden fire, the gods disappear, leaving deep twilight. Vague, the body of Egil lies dead on the bier. Beside it, amid the prostrate folk, rising alone, stands Yorul, with arms upreached toward the rune-stone
Singing
Contains
6 words
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5 sentences
using
44 chars
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Far off, the ice-crown of the volcano flushes in the afterglow
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