Hadda Padda Monologue from Hadda Pada

From Hadda Pada by Guðmundur Kamban

female · dramatic · 1:16 min

Then I thought it surely was the will of fate to separate us. But I loved you even more. I could not give up hope. Not even when you wrote home, the year before last, that you had decided to live abroad. I got that news on the shortest day of the year. I watched the twilight darken into night until the very blackness swam before my eyes in blood-red spots. It was then I made up my mind to go. (INGOLF: Yes, you came in the autumn.) And it was not before December, at a meeting of the Icelandic Society--we sat alone, in an outer room. Then I placed my fate in your hand. (INGOLF: Then you placed your hand in mine.) Then I placed my life in your hand. I willed all my power into my hand and placed it in yours. That instant, nothing but my hand lived. Had you thrust it away, I would not now be living.

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