If they broke it they both would die. The next day, the
prince went to the forest, and saw the sisters sitting there,
under the oak. One of them was holding a golden egg in her hand,
and just as she tossed it into the air, he hurled his spear. It
hit the egg, and broke it--the giantesses fell down, dead.
KRISTRUN. Brave giantesses who dared to treat your sacred
possession so heedlessly!
RANNVEIG. One does not hear the footstep of vengeance. It came to
them unexpectedly.
KRISTRUN. How I wish my whole fate were held in this ball.
RANNVEIG. What would you do if it were?
KRISTRUN. I would lay it gently in the hand of the man I loved,
saying: Take it to a safe place!--and I would shut my eyes--while
he were searching for the place.
RANNVEIG. If my sister were here, perhaps she could read your fate
in the ball, both the past and the future ... Who knows, but the
whole Universe may be mirrored in this one glass globe.
KRISTRUN. That's your favorite superstition. [Smiling
surreptitiously.] Tell me, Veiga--haven't you a life-egg? [Turns
abruptly from her, throwing the ball to Hadda.]
RANNVEIG [evasively].
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