I myself say that you must choose between us. (INGOLF: My heart has chosen, Kristrun. And now my hand chooses. Are you satisfied now?) Why do you ask so sadly? Do you do this half-heartedly?... I don't know whether I can trust you. Only yesterday, when she called you away from me, my heart throbbed with joy. The air about me sang: It is you he loves! But after a while, when she came out, she passed me with a look of supremacy in her eyes. I saw it, I saw it... you are completely in her power. (INGOLF: Before the sun sets to-night, you will have to take back those words.) I fear the strength of her words when she pleads her own cause. It is as though she could charm you into her power by some magic. Do you know what she did yesterday? She came up to me afterwards, and tried to arouse my anger, and so sure was she of her victory, that she gloried in it. She said that I could flirt with any one I wanted--she held the love of the finest man in Iceland.

Kristrun Monologue from Hadda Pada

Rehearse Kristrun's monologue