Hiordis monologue — The Vikings of Helgeland

(with dignity) I have been homeless in this world from that day thou didst take another to wife. That was ill done of thee! All good gifts may a man give his faithful friend--all, save the woman he loves; for if he do that, he rends the Norn's secret web, and two lives are wrecked. An unerring voice within me tells me I came into the world that my strong soul might cheer and sustain thee through heavy days, and that thou wast born to the end I might find in _one_ man all that seemed to me great and noble; for this I know Sigurd--had we two held together, thou hadst become more famous than all others, and I happier.