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THE VIRGIN SPRING

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Adapted from a 13th-century Ballad by
ULLA ISAKSSON

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Cinematography by
SVEN NYKVIST

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Directed by
INGMAR BERGMAN

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Odin, come.

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Odin, come.

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Come to my aid.

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Heavenly Father, Son and Holy Ghost,
with all your hosts of angels,

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guard us this day and always
from the devil's snares.

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Lord, let not
temptation, shame,

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nor danger befall
thy servants this day.

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It's Friday,
the day of our Lord's agony.

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So help me God,

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I nearly stepped on them
out there in the dark.

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You poor thing,

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live out your wretched little life,

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the way God allows
all of us to live.

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Where were you all night?

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If you don't care where you sleep,

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you could at least
come back for the milking.

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Instead I had to run around
on these poor legs.

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Jesus and Mary, you're a sight.
What's wrong?

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What's wrong?
Nothing more than the usual...

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that bastards beget bastards.

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Serves you right,
the way you behave,

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spitting and snarling
like a wildcat.

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You should thank God
on your bare knees for his mercy.

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To come to a farm like this
and stay in this house

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like a child of the family.

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But you are, and always will be,
a savage child.

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The milk is still on the porch!

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You'll have to ride to church
with the candles for the Virgin Mary.

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- Me?
- Yes.

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- Isn't Karin to take them?
- Karin's not well today.

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She'll sleep through morning mass
and then feel just fine.

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I think she has a fever.
Her skin was so warm.

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She certainly burned with fever
at the dance last night.

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Watch your tongue!

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I'm not afraid my daughter
will walk in your filthy footsteps.

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You two have always been
as different as the rose and the thorn.

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You've always pricked others
and made them suffer!

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You can't help yourself.

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We should throw you out, after
the mess you've gotten yourself into.

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Lord, bless this,
our daily bread. Amen.

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Where's Karin?

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Shouldn't she be leaving for church
with the candles for the Virgin?

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Karin's not feeling well today.

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She didn't seem sick last night.
She's fond of sleeping away the morning.

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Nevertheless, she's sick now.

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She can't suddenly be so sick
that she can't ride to church.

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Frida will have
to take the candles.

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You know tradition says a virgin
must take the candles to church.

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You're always so concerned
with discipline and duty

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when it comes to Karin.

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And you're always so soft and weak
when it comes to her.

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She's the only child I have left.

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All the more reason
to raise her properly.

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I had bad dreams last night.

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You shouldn't practice
such harsh penance at night.

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Now send lngeri to wake Karin.

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I'll go myself.

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Yes, go and put some life
into that loafer.

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Ingeri will have to prepare
a lunch for her.

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Put some cheese
in between the wheat cakes.

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And some mutton too.

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Are you sick, Karin?

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No, not sick.

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Just sleepy.

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Can't I have
breakfast in bed today?

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Father says you're to get up at once
and take the candles to church.

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No.

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If you're not well enough,
Frida has to go.

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- I'm not sick.
- Then you have to go.

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Then I want to wear
the yellow shift.

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My child,
it's the middle of the week.

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Then I won't go.

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You're behaving like a little child.

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If I'd used that tone of voice
with my parents at your age,

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I'd have gotten a good thrashing
and nothing to eat.

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Then give me a thrashing
and nothing to eat.

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Give me berries with my bread
instead of butter.

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You know all too well I can't be
hard on you, though I ought to be.

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You laugh,

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but Father's angry,

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and one day
you'll bring shame down upon me.

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Get out my yellow silk shift,

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and my Sunday skirt
and blue cape.

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Then I'll be happy,

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and you'll be happy,
and Father as well.

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Mother, I'll ride to church
with such dignity,

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and Blackie will raise his hooves gently,
like in a pilgrim's procession.

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I'll look neither right nor left
but straight ahead,

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thinking of the candles
and of God's holy mother.

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The white stockings too,

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and the blue shoes
with the pearls.

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This is certainly no everyday shift!

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Fifteen maidens sewed this.

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Calm down.

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Was it really 15,
all at one time?

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Yes.

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Come sit down
and I'll comb your hair.

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No, I'll wear my hair down,

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since I have
these fine clothes on.

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If you always get your way,
you'll give the devil such joy

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that the saints will punish you
with boils and toothaches.

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Why are you always
talking about the devil?

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Father never does.

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Because the devil
seduces the innocent

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and seeks to destroy goodness
before it can blossom.

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I always say my prayers, Mother.

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Who did you dance with
last night?

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I danced

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with him,

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him

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and him.

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Why do you want to know?

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I had such wicked dreams last night.

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What did you dream, Mother?

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I wish I had dreams too.

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Big, wonderful dreams.

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But I never do.

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Now the skirts, Mother.

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The blue one,
and the bright one with gold threads.

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Pull harder,

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or it won't puff out
the way it should.

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You forgot the necklace.

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Leave the necklace for Sunday.
This is quite enough already.

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You're in my light.

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That's your father.
Now he's angry.

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Sick, are you?
Mother said something to that effect.

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Do I look sick to you?

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Pale and frail and ill?

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Is this proper,
sleeping past sunrise?

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Father, when I get to church,
I'll kiss Father Erik's hand

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and beg forgiveness
for not arriving in time for matins.

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"Mother was sick, " I'll say.

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"And Father was sick,
and Frida was sick,"

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so they didn't wake me.

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And the candles weren't yet dipped,

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"and Blackie wasn't yet shod."

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I'll ride into the mountains
with this naughty girl,

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and I'll say,

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"I won't have such a daughter."

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imprison her in the mountains
for seven years

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until she's been tamed.

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Then I'll come
and take her home again...

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"maybe."

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Let lngeri come to church, Father.
She never gets away from the farm.

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It's a shame
it's such a long way to church.

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A woman like you no doubt needs
a confessional closer at hand.

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Says the man who had to flee
the country to save his hide.

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I know all about you, Professor.

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Now, now.

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A bird on the wing finds something,
while those who sit still only find death.

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I've seen
both women and churches.

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- What were the churches like?
- Tall as the sky.

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And big.

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Not of wood,
but of mortar and stone.

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With windows
in every color of the rainbow.

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You get to come
to church too, lngeri.

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Father promised.

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Now be on your way,
or you won't get there until nightfall.

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Hurry up, lngeri.

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Drink some warm ale.

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It's a long journey,
and you've eaten nothing.

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I don't want it. Give it to lngeri.
She's coming along.

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- When was that decided?
- Father said so just now.

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You could at least
give me a farewell kiss.

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Christ our lord,
bless this young life.

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These cheese cakes and candles

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are for Father Erik from me.

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When you hand them to him,
give him my best wishes

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and tell him they're for
"you know what."

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And he should say
five Our Fathers and 15 Hail Marys.

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So lovely an apple orchard I know

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A maiden with virtues so dear

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Her hair like spun gold does flow

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Her eyes like the heavens so clear

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The streams flow so merrily

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All under the verdant trees

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In springtime's breeze

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The little bird, he soars so high

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And rides the wind on his wing

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it is such work, such work to fly

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And over high mountains to spring

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The streams flow so merrily

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All under the verdant trees

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In springtime's breeze

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Does the baby hurt you, lngeri?
What's the matter?

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You'll learn for yourself one day.

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Then I'll be married,
and mistress of my house with honor.

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We'll see about your honor

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when a man takes your waist
or strokes your neck.

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No man will get me to bed
without marriage.

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And if he meets you in the pasture
and pulls you down behind a bush?

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I'll fight my way free.

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But he's stronger than you.

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If you're on your way to matins,
you're too late.

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But better to bloom on the road
than wither in church.

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I'm taking candles to church.

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I see.
In the Holy Virgin's honor,

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you've bedecked
and bejeweled yourself

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like a bride for her groom.

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No, because it's such nice weather,
and because Mother was against it.

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Not because I expected
to meet you.

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Thank you for last night, Karin.

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- There's nothing to thank me for.
- Oh, isn't there?

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No, and you know that
just as well as I.

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What is it, lngeri?

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I was in the barn last night.
I saw you two.

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I wanted to speak to him
about you,

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to see if there might be help
for you and the child.

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He probably said if you offered him
your mouth, there'd be help.

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and if you rolled with him in the hay,
there'd be even more!

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You smiled at him

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and took his hand in the dance.

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I danced with anyone
who offered me his hand.

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Forgive me for slapping you.

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Don't ask me for forgiveness!

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- Let's turn back.
- Why? We must get to church.

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I'll take the candles
and explain to Father Erik.

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Why should you?
Mother and Father wouldn't like that.

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The forest is so dark!
I can't go on!

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Don't cry so hard.
You could hurt the child.

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Are the young maidens
frightened of the forest?

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I'm not frightened.
I'm going to church.

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May she rest in your cottage a while
until I come back?

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Look here.
This is enough for both of you.

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Did you think I was going
to slap you again?

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Are you in labor?

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Worse than that.

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Come, I can help.

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Sit down.

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It's been a long time since anyone sat
with me in the seat of honor.

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What's your name?

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Nowadays I have no name.

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This is a quiet, lonely place.

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You're a long way
from neighbors.

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I hear what I want to hear

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and see what I want to see.

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I hear what men whisper in secret

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and see what they think
no one sees.

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You can hear it yourself,
if you wish.

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Just listen.

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What's that pounding outside?

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Three dead men riding north.

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It's been a long time since a woman
made my chair narrower for me.

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Here is a cure
for your anguish.

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Here is a cure for your woe.

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00:27:45,673 --> 00:27:49,475
Blood, course no more.

251
00:27:54,197 --> 00:27:57,840
Fish, stop still in the brook...

252
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:03,443
and you, eagle, in the sky.

253
00:28:08,925 --> 00:28:11,647
Here is the power.

254
00:28:17,410 --> 00:28:19,531
You've taken human blood.

255
00:28:20,892 --> 00:28:23,093
You've made an offering to Odin.

256
00:28:25,134 --> 00:28:28,335
I recognized you at once
when I saw you on the path,

257
00:28:28,536 --> 00:28:33,218
by your eyes,
your mouth, your hands.

258
00:28:33,418 --> 00:28:35,539
But you're afraid.

259
00:28:35,739 --> 00:28:37,860
You mustn't be.

260
00:28:38,061 --> 00:28:40,342
I will give you strength.

261
00:31:12,302 --> 00:31:14,022
What a funny little mouth harp.

262
00:31:14,503 --> 00:31:18,424
I inherited it from my father,
who inherited it from his,

263
00:31:18,625 --> 00:31:20,145
who inherited it from his.

264
00:31:20,345 --> 00:31:21,826
May I please see?

265
00:31:26,068 --> 00:31:27,429
Who are you?

266
00:31:27,629 --> 00:31:31,792
Three brothers who lost
both father and mother too early in life.

267
00:31:32,152 --> 00:31:33,872
Who takes care of you?

268
00:31:34,113 --> 00:31:35,474
We're herdsmen in the forest.

269
00:31:35,673 --> 00:31:37,915
We drink from the creek
and eat roots from the earth.

270
00:31:38,395 --> 00:31:40,316
Mother gave me a lunch sack
before I left.

271
00:31:43,198 --> 00:31:45,558
- My brother says -
- Is your brother mute?

272
00:31:45,759 --> 00:31:48,320
Evil men cut his tongue
out of his throat.

273
00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:49,240
No!

274
00:31:50,681 --> 00:31:52,322
But I understand him.

275
00:31:52,523 --> 00:31:55,524
He says only if the proud maiden
will keep us company

276
00:31:55,724 --> 00:31:57,405
can we accept such a gift.

277
00:31:57,805 --> 00:32:00,887
I must ride to church
with the Holy Mother's candles.

278
00:32:01,326 --> 00:32:02,567
For matins?

279
00:32:02,768 --> 00:32:06,330
I'm too late for that.
I overslept this morning.

280
00:32:06,569 --> 00:32:09,491
But if matins are over,
there's no great hurry.

281
00:32:09,691 --> 00:32:12,373
And if your dear mother made
a lunch for her proud maiden,

282
00:32:12,572 --> 00:32:14,614
she meant for her to eat.

283
00:32:15,094 --> 00:32:18,576
My brother says there's
a nice glade warmed by the sun,

284
00:32:18,776 --> 00:32:21,257
if only the proud maiden
would join us there.

285
00:33:35,496 --> 00:33:38,338
No blessed Jesus,
God the Father's son,

286
00:33:38,497 --> 00:33:41,379
you are the living bread
that from heaven comes.

287
00:33:46,983 --> 00:33:49,824
You bless me
with this bodily bread

288
00:33:50,023 --> 00:33:53,065
and save my soul
from eternal death.

289
00:34:12,236 --> 00:34:15,877
My brother's very curious:
Where is the proud maiden's farm?

290
00:34:16,038 --> 00:34:18,919
It's east of the mountain
and west of the forest,

291
00:34:19,159 --> 00:34:22,241
and so large that you must press
your neck hard against your back

292
00:34:22,481 --> 00:34:25,002
to see the battlements.

293
00:34:25,523 --> 00:34:28,043
The proud maiden
must be a king's daughter.

294
00:34:28,204 --> 00:34:31,605
Father wears silk garments every day,
and a golden helmet,

295
00:34:31,806 --> 00:34:34,447
and his lance flashes
like gold in the sun.

296
00:34:34,647 --> 00:34:38,089
And Mother's key ring is so heavy,
she can't wear it on her belt.

297
00:34:38,289 --> 00:34:42,692
A little maid follows behind her all day,
carrying it on a pillow.

298
00:34:44,412 --> 00:34:47,133
And you three could be
enchanted princes

299
00:34:47,334 --> 00:34:49,455
under a wood nymph's spell.

300
00:34:49,655 --> 00:34:54,858
And the goats could be bears
and wolves that she has transformed.

301
00:35:15,508 --> 00:35:19,230
My brother says the proud maiden
has such white hands.

302
00:35:19,991 --> 00:35:24,353
Because princesses needn't
do the washing or make fires.

303
00:35:30,036 --> 00:35:34,598
My brother says the proud maiden
has such a pretty neck.

304
00:35:34,758 --> 00:35:38,801
To make a princess's gold necklace
shine all the brighter.

305
00:35:44,083 --> 00:35:49,247
My brother says the proud maiden
has such a narrow waist.

306
00:35:52,448 --> 00:35:54,969
Cut this up
and we can all have some.

307
00:35:56,210 --> 00:35:58,091
But perhaps you have no knife?

308
00:36:10,378 --> 00:36:13,739
These look like
Simon of Snollsta's marks.

309
00:36:48,637 --> 00:36:51,959
I'm on my way to church
with the Virgin's candles.

310
00:41:30,704 --> 00:41:33,026
Stay here and watch the goats
till we come back.

311
00:41:33,226 --> 00:41:35,787
Do as I say,
or you know what will happen.

312
00:43:41,413 --> 00:43:43,815
If you have something to say,
step forward and speak up.

313
00:43:44,735 --> 00:43:47,176
We have nothing to say

314
00:43:47,936 --> 00:43:50,258
except that the night is cold
and the road long.

315
00:43:51,058 --> 00:43:52,539
Where are you from?

316
00:43:52,779 --> 00:43:55,861
The north. The northwest.

317
00:43:57,942 --> 00:43:59,502
How has the winter been
up there?

318
00:44:00,063 --> 00:44:03,344
It's been hard,
and there's been much sickness.

319
00:44:03,825 --> 00:44:06,786
The people are faint with hunger
and can hardly leave their cottages,

320
00:44:07,587 --> 00:44:09,428
while the cows sink to their knees
in their stalls.

321
00:44:10,588 --> 00:44:12,509
So I've heard.

322
00:44:12,710 --> 00:44:15,271
You've had a crippling winter.

323
00:44:18,272 --> 00:44:22,075
- Where are you headed?
- We seek work further south.

324
00:44:23,115 --> 00:44:26,116
You may sleep in the manor hall.
There will be frost tonight.

325
00:45:15,542 --> 00:45:17,504
Good evening.

326
00:45:19,465 --> 00:45:22,506
We met the master in the yard
and he invited us in.

327
00:45:22,706 --> 00:45:24,747
Sit there until he comes.

328
00:45:53,962 --> 00:45:56,444
Those shoes have been
through a lot.

329
00:46:02,087 --> 00:46:06,530
A day can start out beautifully
yet end in misery.

330
00:46:07,330 --> 00:46:11,211
Rarely have I seen a morning
so full of promise as this morning.

331
00:46:13,253 --> 00:46:17,575
The sun shone in all its fairness
and made you forget winter's rages.

332
00:46:20,657 --> 00:46:23,298
My legs wanted
to dance for joy,

333
00:46:24,178 --> 00:46:28,020
but before nightfall
she lay dead.

334
00:46:29,661 --> 00:46:32,783
I saw the May Queen herself
ride into the sun,

335
00:46:33,544 --> 00:46:35,985
but she never returned.

336
00:47:56,987 --> 00:48:00,549
No blessed Jesus,
God the Father's son,

337
00:48:01,069 --> 00:48:02,590
you are the living bread

338
00:48:02,790 --> 00:48:05,191
that from heaven comes.

339
00:48:05,872 --> 00:48:09,594
You bless me
with this bodily bread

340
00:48:09,793 --> 00:48:13,155
and save my soul
from eternal death.

341
00:49:38,240 --> 00:49:40,802
- Did you finish?
- Yes.

342
00:49:41,042 --> 00:49:43,524
The northern pasture
has been fertilized and plowed.

343
00:49:44,645 --> 00:49:48,329
My father used to say,
"Feed the clay heavy, the sand light."

344
00:49:55,856 --> 00:49:58,258
Please forgive
my poor little brother.

345
00:49:58,618 --> 00:50:00,100
Is he like this often?

346
00:50:00,300 --> 00:50:03,022
Only when we've been starving
for a long time.

347
00:50:03,663 --> 00:50:06,946
Rub his temples and hands
with salt and vinegar,

348
00:50:07,146 --> 00:50:09,869
and place a warm wooden lid
on his belly.

349
00:50:10,028 --> 00:50:12,031
Thank you kindly,
but there's no need.

350
00:50:12,231 --> 00:50:14,633
The less fuss made,
the quicker it passes.

351
00:50:33,690 --> 00:50:36,453
There'll be work
here on the farm.

352
00:50:37,454 --> 00:50:39,376
But we can discuss that tomorrow.

353
00:50:44,059 --> 00:50:48,063
You can keep the fire burning tonight.
It'll be bitterly cold.

354
00:51:00,554 --> 00:51:02,277
Good night.

355
00:51:07,401 --> 00:51:08,642
Come.

356
00:51:09,322 --> 00:51:11,645
Come on.

357
00:51:26,739 --> 00:51:28,661
Good night.

358
00:51:35,507 --> 00:51:37,909
You say your prayers, don't you,

359
00:51:38,109 --> 00:51:39,830
even if no one keeps after you?

360
00:51:41,472 --> 00:51:43,714
You poor thing.

361
00:51:44,354 --> 00:51:47,517
But God is merciful,

362
00:51:47,678 --> 00:51:50,520
more merciful than you think.

363
00:51:50,881 --> 00:51:53,363
Say your prayers properly tonight,

364
00:51:53,563 --> 00:51:55,885
and don't forget them
from now on.

365
00:52:52,056 --> 00:52:56,460
You see how the smoke trembles
up in the roof hole?

366
00:52:58,542 --> 00:53:00,904
As if whimpering and afraid.

367
00:53:02,626 --> 00:53:05,628
Yet it's only going out
into the open air,

368
00:53:06,029 --> 00:53:09,472
where it has the whole sky
to tumble about in.

369
00:53:10,152 --> 00:53:12,194
But it doesn't know that.

370
00:53:13,315 --> 00:53:18,840
So it cowers and trembles
under the sooty ridge of the roof.

371
00:53:21,323 --> 00:53:23,805
People are the same way.

372
00:53:24,846 --> 00:53:28,289
They worry and tremble
like leaves in a storm...

373
00:53:29,370 --> 00:53:31,332
because of what they know

374
00:53:32,293 --> 00:53:34,334
and what they don't know.

375
00:53:36,256 --> 00:53:38,178
You...

376
00:53:39,019 --> 00:53:42,141
shall cross a narrow plank,

377
00:53:42,942 --> 00:53:47,947
so narrow you can't find
your footing.

378
00:53:48,548 --> 00:53:51,190
Below you roars a great river.

379
00:53:52,271 --> 00:53:55,554
It's black
and wants to swallow you up.

380
00:53:56,635 --> 00:53:58,877
But you pass over it unharmed.

381
00:54:00,798 --> 00:54:03,441
Before you lies a chasm

382
00:54:04,442 --> 00:54:07,445
so deep you can't see
the bottom.

383
00:54:08,526 --> 00:54:10,848
Hands grope for you,

384
00:54:11,609 --> 00:54:13,450
but they can't reach you.

385
00:54:17,214 --> 00:54:21,858
At last you stand
before a mountain of terror.

386
00:54:22,898 --> 00:54:25,781
It spews fire like a furnace,

387
00:54:25,941 --> 00:54:28,984
and a vast abyss
opens at its feet.

388
00:54:30,345 --> 00:54:32,588
A thousand colors blaze there:

389
00:54:32,787 --> 00:54:37,071
Copper and iron,
blue vitriol and yellow sulfur.

390
00:54:38,152 --> 00:54:42,517
Flames dazzle and flash
and lash at the rocks.

391
00:54:43,598 --> 00:54:48,882
And all about,
men leap and writhe, small as ants,

392
00:54:50,044 --> 00:54:52,045
for this is the furnace

393
00:54:52,246 --> 00:54:57,010
that swallows up
murderers and evildoers.

394
00:55:00,493 --> 00:55:02,815
But at the very moment
you think you're doomed,

395
00:55:03,055 --> 00:55:08,340
a hand shall grasp you
and an arm circle around you,

396
00:55:08,540 --> 00:55:11,543
and you'll be taken far away...

397
00:55:12,944 --> 00:55:16,788
where evil no longer
has power over you.

398
00:55:33,683 --> 00:55:36,205
If Karin doesn't
come home tonight,

399
00:55:37,166 --> 00:55:39,928
she'll surely return tomorrow.

400
00:55:44,373 --> 00:55:46,695
Calm down, Märeta.

401
00:55:47,856 --> 00:55:50,498
How can you tell me
to calm down?

402
00:55:50,699 --> 00:55:53,381
That's all you ever say.

403
00:55:53,862 --> 00:55:57,825
What would have become of us
if I'd always done like you?

404
00:55:58,266 --> 00:56:03,190
Never troubled or worried,
never praying to God.

405
00:56:06,473 --> 00:56:09,836
Open your hands.
Märeta, open your hands.

406
00:56:17,363 --> 00:56:19,445
I know you're worried about Karin.

407
00:56:19,645 --> 00:56:22,048
She's all I have!

408
00:56:25,050 --> 00:56:28,573
But she's stayed in the village
overnight without permission before.

409
00:56:28,774 --> 00:56:31,096
She's all I have.

410
00:56:52,955 --> 00:56:55,758
She's the only one I have left.

411
00:57:21,701 --> 00:57:23,263
They struck the boy.

412
00:57:42,481 --> 00:57:45,083
I thought I heard
the boy scream.

413
00:57:45,403 --> 00:57:49,487
It was just an owl in the forest.
We've heard it all night.

414
00:58:47,780 --> 00:58:50,022
This silk shift

415
00:58:50,182 --> 00:58:53,745
and what's in this bag
is all we have left of our sister.

416
00:58:53,905 --> 00:58:56,107
She died at Candlemas.

417
00:58:57,989 --> 00:59:00,592
It's a precious memento,

418
00:59:01,552 --> 00:59:04,555
but need knows no law,

419
00:59:04,755 --> 00:59:07,318
and we thought we would
offer it to you.

420
00:59:08,719 --> 00:59:12,402
We see you are a lady who understands
the value of beautiful things...

421
00:59:13,924 --> 00:59:17,207
and this is what
our sister treasured most.

422
00:59:23,892 --> 00:59:27,216
It's a bit torn and spotted,

423
00:59:27,456 --> 00:59:29,497
but look at the embroidery.

424
00:59:29,658 --> 00:59:32,300
It's surely the work
of nine young maidens.

425
00:59:38,066 --> 00:59:42,109
Skillful hands like yours will know
how to make it like new again.

426
00:59:48,075 --> 00:59:51,358
I must ask my husband

427
00:59:51,557 --> 00:59:57,043
what a fitting reward would be
for such a valuable garment.

428
01:00:03,048 --> 01:00:08,373
Now see that
you get some rest too.

429
01:01:41,938 --> 01:01:43,820
What's the matter, Märeta?

430
01:01:45,781 --> 01:01:48,263
The herdsmen
offered it to me for sale.

431
01:01:51,107 --> 01:01:52,708
It's Karin's.

432
01:01:57,072 --> 01:01:58,794
There's blood on it.

433
01:02:14,968 --> 01:02:16,809
What are you going to do?

434
01:02:17,690 --> 01:02:19,773
First I'll put the crossbar
on the outer door.

435
01:02:19,972 --> 01:02:21,735
It's already done.

436
01:02:50,961 --> 01:02:53,363
Will you take
the farmhands with you?

437
01:03:04,493 --> 01:03:06,055
Be careful!

438
01:03:43,488 --> 01:03:45,451
Tell me what you know.

439
01:03:46,692 --> 01:03:48,693
Kill me first.

440
01:03:50,095 --> 01:03:52,457
My guilt is greater than theirs.

441
01:03:52,697 --> 01:03:54,539
I willed it to happen.

442
01:03:54,698 --> 01:03:57,501
Ever since I became with child
I've hated her.

443
01:04:00,704 --> 01:04:04,388
The very day I prayed for it,
he did it.

444
01:04:05,268 --> 01:04:08,191
It was him and me,
not the herdsmen.

445
01:04:08,391 --> 01:04:10,193
He possessed them,

446
01:04:10,393 --> 01:04:13,036
and they threw themselves on her
like devils, all at once.

447
01:04:13,235 --> 01:04:16,318
They fell upon her
and held her down...

448
01:04:17,720 --> 01:04:20,042
and they took her.

449
01:04:20,242 --> 01:04:22,163
You saw it?

450
01:04:23,045 --> 01:04:24,966
I was in the forest.

451
01:04:25,167 --> 01:04:26,728
I saw it...

452
01:04:27,729 --> 01:04:29,570
and willed it to happen.

453
01:04:31,812 --> 01:04:34,896
I picked up a rock
to throw at them,

454
01:04:35,095 --> 01:04:37,417
but I let it fall.

455
01:04:38,218 --> 01:04:40,300
And when it was over,

456
01:04:40,541 --> 01:04:42,583
they beat her to death
with a club.

457
01:04:44,424 --> 01:04:46,465
I saw that too!

458
01:04:55,394 --> 01:04:57,636
Heat up the bath.

459
01:04:58,156 --> 01:05:00,719
I'll get some birch branches.

460
01:07:17,523 --> 01:07:20,286
Bring me the butcher's knife.

461
01:16:42,237 --> 01:16:44,719
God forgive me
for what I've done.

462
01:17:21,113 --> 01:17:23,034
We must find Karin.

463
01:18:46,550 --> 01:18:49,952
I loved her too much, Töre,
more than God himself.

464
01:18:50,153 --> 01:18:53,596
When I saw how she favored you,
I began to hate you.

465
01:18:53,796 --> 01:18:57,239
It is me God meant to punish by this.
I bear the guilt.

466
01:18:58,240 --> 01:19:02,284
You are not alone, Märeta,
and God alone knows where guilt lies.

467
01:21:25,094 --> 01:21:26,976
You saw it.

468
01:21:27,856 --> 01:21:29,938
God, you saw it.

469
01:21:32,621 --> 01:21:36,264
The death of an innocent child,
and my vengeance.

470
01:21:39,307 --> 01:21:41,188
You allowed it to happen.

471
01:21:46,354 --> 01:21:48,515
I don't understand you.

472
01:21:53,840 --> 01:21:56,162
I don't understand you.

473
01:22:06,211 --> 01:22:08,934
Yet still I ask your forgiveness.

474
01:22:13,458 --> 01:22:16,060
I know no other way
to make peace with myself

475
01:22:16,261 --> 01:22:18,423
than with my own hands.

476
01:22:20,304 --> 01:22:22,987
I don't know
any other way to live.

477
01:22:34,117 --> 01:22:36,078
I promise you, God...

478
01:22:37,640 --> 01:22:41,843
here, by the dead body
of my only child,

479
01:22:42,044 --> 01:22:46,488
I promise
that as penance for my sin,

480
01:22:46,688 --> 01:22:48,890
I shall build you a church.

481
01:22:49,571 --> 01:22:51,732
On this spot I shall build it.

482
01:22:52,654 --> 01:22:55,015
Out of mortar and stone...

483
01:22:58,700 --> 01:23:00,741
and with these very hands.

484
01:25:11,540 --> 01:25:18,426
No Lord, receive my soul

485
01:25:20,267 --> 01:25:26,634
And grant me everlasting peace

486
01:25:27,194 --> 01:25:34,881
Grant me everlasting peace

487
01:25:35,401 --> 01:25:38,084
At your side, No Lord