[Starts up madly.]

Freyja! death—freedom! freedom! death!—Now—now!

[As Freyja and the gods pass from sight beyond the cliffs,

Fenris gnaws at his chain in inarticulate fury.]

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ACT I

Scene I: Outside a tribal temple.

Scene I

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

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