Monologue

Valgerd Monologue from The Outlaw

From The Outlaw by August Strindberg

female · anguished · 1:07 min

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Thorfinn, you call me cowardly. I can suffer that, but faithless--there you wrong me. I have not loved you as warmly as the southern women are said to love, yet have I been faithful to you throughout life and I have sworn to go with you in death--as is the ancient custom. (Opens a trap door in floor.) Look, here have I prepared my grave, here would I die under these smoky beams that have witnessed my sorrows--and with those (points to the carved images of Thor and Odin on uprights of high bench) who guided us here. I want to go with the flames, and in the smoke shall my spirit rise to Ginde to receive charity and peace. GUNLÖD. And I to be alone afterward! Oh, let me follow you.

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30s · despair · death · faithfulness · sorrow · isolation

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