So much that I shall be glad to die.

But if you are not come to kill me, then it is that you may scourge me with your tongue." "Not so, Steinar.

It is as I have said, only to bid you farewell and to ask you a question, if it pleases you to answer me.

Why did you do this thing which has brought about such misery and loss, which has sent my father, my brother, and a host of brave men to the grave, and with them my mother, whose breasts nursed you ?" "Is she dead also, Olaf?
Oh! my cup is full." He hid his eyes in his thin hands and sobbed, then went on: "Why did I do it?
Olaf, I did not do it, but some spirit that entered into me and made me mad--mad for the lips of Iduna the Fair.

Olaf, I would speak no ill of her, since her sin is mine, but yet it is true that when I hung back she drew me on, nor could I find the strength to say her nay.