Scene 5

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_ SCENE V

[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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