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[A sunny valley, rich in flowers, trees, and vegetation of all kinds, and surrounded by lofty snow-capped mountains. In the center of the background a quiet mountain tarn; on the left side a rocky cliff which drops straight down to the water. On the same side nearer the front of the stage a very old log hut, almost entirely hidden in the dense shrubbery. The glow of dawn shines over the mountains; in the valley itself the day is only half begun; during the following scene's the sun rises.]
[ALFHILD lies sleeping and half concealed among the bushes beside the hut; soft music indicates her shifting dreams. OLAF comes down the hillside to the right. Over his wedding clothes he wears a coarse cloak.]
Olaf. Here it was; I know the green there this side of the tarn.
It was yonder beneath the linden tree that I dreamed my strange
dream. On the slope of the mountain there I stood when Alfhild
for the first time came to meet me; I placed my betrothal ring on
the string of my bow and shot; — that shot has proved a magic
shot; it struck the huntsman himself.
Olaf. It is strange that when I wander up here, far from the
village below, it seems as if another atmosphere played around
me, as if a more vigorous blood flowed in my veins, as if I had
another mind, another soul.
Olaf. Where is she now?
Olaf. I shall — I will find her again! Up here she must come;
she has no home out there in the cold wide world. And I— am I
not also a homeless fugitive? Did I not become a stranger in my
mother's house, a stranger among my kinsmen, the very first hour
I met her?
Olaf. Is she then a witch — has she power over secret arts as —?
Olaf. My mother! Hm! It seems to me it would scarcely be well
for me to allow her to manage my life; she insinuates thoughts
into my heart which do not belong there. No, no, I will find
Alfhild again and ask forgiveness for the wrong I have done, and
then —
[He stops and looks out to the left.]
[OLAF. Alfhild still sleeping. Thorgjerd comes from behind the hut on the left.]
Olaf. Well met, stranger!
Thorgjerd. Thanks, the same to you. You are early about!
Olaf. Or late; early in the morning, but late in the night.
Thorgjerd. You belong in the village below, I take it.
Olaf. My family lives there. And you?
Thorgjerd. Wherever the mind is at rest, there is one at home;
that is why I like best to wander in here; — my neighbors shall
not do me any injustice.
Olaf. That I have noticed.
Thorgjerd. Then you have been here before?
Olaf. I chased a hind this summer in here; but when I look
closely I see 'tis a royal child that has been bewitched.
Thorgjerd. [Looks at him sharply.] That hunt is dangerous!
Olaf. For the hunter?
[THORGJERD nods.]
Olaf. I was sitting and thinking the same thing myself; it seems
to me that I was bewitched on that hunt.
Thorgjerd. Farewell and good luck to you!
Olaf. Out upon you! If you wish a huntsman good luck he will
never come within shot of the prey.
Thorgjerd. If the shot should strike the hunter himself, the
best luck that could happen to him would be to have no luck at
Olaf. You speak wisely.
Thorgjerd. Yes, yes; there is many a thing to be learned in
Olaf. Too true! I have learned here the best that I know.
Thorgjerd. Farewell! I'll take greetings from you to your
Olaf. You mean to go down?
Thorgjerd. Such was my purpose. These are merry days down
there, I am told. A mighty knight is celebrating his wedding —
Olaf. Then you should have been there last night; now I fear the
best part of the fun is past.
Thorgjerd. I dare say I'll come in time even yet.
Olaf. Perhaps! But still you should have been there last night;
so bright and so warm a festive hall you never have seen before.
Thorgjerd. It was well for him who was within.
Olaf. I know one who had to stand outside.
Thorgjerd. Yes, yes, outside — that is the poor man's place.
Olaf. I know one who had to stand outside and who nevertheless
was both worse off and better off than those within.
Thorgjerd. I must go down — I see that clearly; I shall play for
the guests. Now I shall fetch my harp, and then —
Olaf. You are a minstrel?
Thorgjerd. And not among the worst. Now shall I fetch my harp
from where it lies hidden near the waterfall; those strings you
should hear. With them I sat once on the edge of the bed and
played the bride out of the festive hall over ridge and
field. — Have you never heard little Ingrid's lay? He who could
play the bride out of the bridegroom's arms can surely play his
child home to her father again. Farewell! If you linger here we
may meet again when I get down there.
[He goes out to the right by the tarn.]
Olaf. Ah, if it were — for certain I cannot doubt it. Alfhild
herself said that her father played such music that no one who
heard it could ever forget. He mentioned Lady Ingrid who
disappeared on the eve of her wedding many years ago — there was
a young minstrel named Thorgjerd who loved her, so went the
story. Many a strange tale was afterwards current about him; at
times he stood right in the midst of the village and played so
beautifully that all who heard it had to weep; but no one knew
where he made his home. Alfhild — yes, she is his child! Here
she has grown up, here in this desolate valley, which no one has
known of by name for many a year; and Ingrid, who
disappeared — indeed, he said —
[Becomes aware of ALFHILD.]
Olaf. Alfhild! There she is! In her wedding garments she has
fled up here. Here then shall you awaken after the bridal night;
so sorry a day to you was my day of honor. You wished to go out
into life, you said; you wanted to learn to know all the love in
the world. So sorry a journey you had, but I swear it shall all
be well again. She moves; it is as if she were writhing in
sorrow and anguish; — when you awaken, it shall be to joy and
Alfhild. [Still half in dreams.]
It burns! Oh, save him — he is within!
He must not die! Life anew he must win!
[She jumps up in fright; the music ceases.]
Alfhild. Where am I! He stands here before me, it seems!
Olaf Liljekrans! save me from my dreams!
Olaf. Alfhild! take heart, here you need fear no harm!
Alfhild. [Moves away, fearfully and apprehensively.]
You think with sweet words my soul to beguile?
In your heart there is evil, though with lips you may smile,
On me you shall nevermore practice your charm!
Olaf. Alfhild! be calm, do not start;
'Tis Olaf I am, the friend of your heart!
Unkind I have been, I have treated you ill;
But deep in my heart I was faithful to you!
I was blind and deluded and weak of will —
And thus I did wound you far more than I knew!
O, can you forgive me? Alfhild, you must —
I swear to you I shall be worthy your trust!
I shall bear you aloft and smooth your way,
And kiss from your cheek the tears of dole,
The grief in your heart I shall try to allay,
And heal the wound that burns in your soul!
Alfhild. I know you too well and your cunning disguise.
Since last I did see you I too have grown wise.
You would have me believe with your wily speech
It is you for whom I now suffer and languish.
You would have me believe it was you that did teach
Me to revel in joy and to writhe in anguish.
'Twill profit you little, I know you too well,
Whether early or late you come to my dell.
I know you too well; for deceit on your brow
I can read. Not so was the other, I vow!
Olaf. The other? Whom mean you?
Alfhild. He that is dead!
'Tis therefore I suffer so bitter a dread.
You don't understand? You must know there were two;
And that is why peace I shall nevermore find!
The one was all love, so good and so true,
The other was evil, faithless, unkind;
The one to me came on a late summer day,
When my heart burst in flower and bloom;
The other led me in the mountain astray,
Where all things are shrouded in gloom!
'Tis the evil one, you, that has come again;
The other who loved me, so good and so kind,
The one who will never be out of my mind —
Ah, him have I slain!
[She sinks down on a stone near the house and busts into tears.]
Olaf. Has he stolen your peace, has he robbed you of rest,
Then why let him longer dwell there in your breast!
Alfhild. Alas, were I laid in the grave far below,
With me, I am sure, my sorrow would go!
I knew it not then — to you do I swear,
I thought it was little for him I did care;
Now I see I must die of a grief-broken heart,
Yet his image will never depart!
[A short pause.]
Alfhild. Have you chords in your bosom that you can command?
It seems so; your voice sounds so pleasant and sweet;
Pleasant — though blended it is with deceit.
Have you chords in your breast, then go round in the land
And sing of Alfhild a plaintive lay
To the village girls you meet on the way:
Only yesterday I was so little a roe,
I roamed in the green groves around;
They came to the forest with arrow and bow,
And chased me with falcon and hound!
Only yesterday I was a bird so forlorn,
I sat 'neath the linden alone;
They drove me away from the place I was born,
And threw at me stone after stone.
Only yesterday I was an untamed dove,
Which nowhere finds peace or rest;
They came from below, they came from above,
And pierced with an arrow my breast!
Olaf. [Deeply moved.]
Alas, that I lay in the grave below.
Lulled in eternal rest!
Your every word is a steel-made bow
That strikes with an arrow my breast!
Alfhild. [Jumps up with childlike joy.]
Just so it shall be — 'tis rightfully so!
Yes, truly, indeed, have you chords in your breast!
So let it be sung; they easily show
That you are yourself by my sorrow oppressed.
They show that your own grief is just as strong
As the one that you voice in your plaintive song!
[She stops and looks sorrowfully at him.]
Alfhild. Yet no — you shall not sing of Alfhild's lament;
What stranger is there whom my sorrow will move!
From whence I came, and whither I went
There is no one out there who shall question or prove!
Sing rather of Olaf Liljekrans,
Who wandered astray in the elf-maidens' dance!
Sing of Alfhild, the false and unkind,
Who drove his betrothed quite out of his mind;
And sing of all the sorrow and fear,
When dead Olaf Liljekrans lay on the bier.
Sing of all the weeping below,
When away they carried the three who had died!
The one was Olaf, the other his bride!
The third was his mother who perished of woe.
Olaf. Yes, Olaf is dead; it is just as you say;
But I shall be now so faithful a friend;
Wherever you dwell, wherever you wend,
From your side I shall nevermore stray!
May I suffer in full for the sin I committed —
Atonement to me shall be sweet.
'Twill comfort me much if I be permitted
To roam with you here in some far-off retreat!
From early dawn till the end of day,
Like a faithful hound I shall follow your lead!
I shall clothe my remorse in so plaintive a lay
Till finally you shall believe me indeed.
Each moment we spent here in ecstasy
I shall call up again to your memory!
Each flower that blooms shall speak it anew,
The cuckoo and swallow shall sing it to you!
The trees that grow here in the forest so green
Shall whisper thereof both soft and serene!
Alfhild. Enough! You would only beguile me anew;
Far better were it for you now to depart!
So fair is the falsehood I see within you,
So faithless the thoughts that dwell in your heart!
What would you up here? What is it you want?
You think that you know the place that you haunt?
So pleasant a spot was this valley of yore,
A curse lies upon it forevermore!
In the past, when lone in the forest I went,
The leaves on the trees had so fragrant a scent!
The flowers bloomed forth on my every side,
When you pressed me to you and called me your bride!
But now — the whole valley is burned in the night;
The trees are burned to the left and the right;
The straw and the leaves are withered away,
Each flower is turned to a dusty gray! —
Alfhild. Yes, clearly I see — in a single night
Is the world become old! — When I wandered below
All alone, and sank down 'neath my shame and my woe,
Then faded the world and its golden delight.
All things but deceit have vanished away;
So much have I learned on my bridal day!
My father lied; he was wrong when he said
The dead are borne to the dwelling of God;
But Olaf knew better the fate of the dead:
The dead sink below, far under the sod!
Alfhild. [She breaks out in deepest agony.]
Ah, well do I see now you knew what you did;
For low in the grave my body is hid.
Olaf. Alfhild! Your words deal so crushing a blow!
O, God! was your heart once so young and so bold —
Forgive me my sin and forget all your woe!
Alfhild. [With marked and increasing bewilderment.]
Hush, do not speak to me! Olaf, behold!
A corpse they carry, to the grave they creep;
But no mother is there, no children who weep,
No pillows are there of blue or of red —
Alfhild on shavings and straw lies dead!
I shall never ride now to the heaven above,
And awake in the arms of the God of love.
No mother have I whose heart will break,
No one who follows and weeps for my sake;
No person have I in the world so wide,
Who weeps for me at the bier —
No angels to scatter on every side
Blue pearls in the heavenly sphere;
And ne'er shall I reach the dwelling of God,
Where the dead dream only of mirth!
Olaf. Alfhild!
Alfhild. They lower me under the sod!
They cover me over with earth!
And here must I lie with all my dread,
Must live and suffer although I be dead:
Must know there is nothing now left for me,
Yet cannot forget, nor fight myself free;
Must hear when he whom my love I gave
Rides off to the church right over my grave;
Must hear him forever suffer and languish,
And yet can not lessen his anguish!
O, how my bosom is filled with despair!
The angels of God have forgotten my prayer!
They heed no longer my weeping and woe —
The portal is closed to the heavenly bliss —
Dig me up again! Let me not lie here below!
[She rushes out to the left.]
Olaf. Alfhild! Alfhild! O, Christ, what is this?
[He follows her quickly.]
[INGEBORG and HEMMING enter, after a pause, from the right.]
Ingeborg. Well, here we are up here! How lovely and bright and
peaceful it is!
Hemming. Yes, here we shall live happily together!
Ingeborg. But mark you well that you are my servant, and nothing
else — until my father has given his consent.
Hemming. That he will never do!
Ingeborg. Never you mind — we'll find some means or other. — But
now we must think about choosing a cabin to live in.
Hemming. There are plenty of them around here. Over the whole
valley there are deserted huts; everything is just the same as it
was when the last people died in the terrible plague many years
Ingeborg. Here I like it very much! Over there, too, there is
just such an old hut; the water is near by, and the forest must
surely be alive with game. You can fish and hunt; aye, we shall
live a wonderful life!
Hemming. Yea, forsooth, a wonderful life! I shall fish and hunt
the while you gather berries and keep the house in order.
Ingeborg. Do I? No, that you must take care of!
Hemming. Yes, yes, as you please. O, a delightful life we shall
[Stops and adds somewhat dejectedly.]
Hemming. But when I stop to think a bit; — I have neither bow nor
fishing outfit.
Ingeborg. [Likewise with an expression of despondency.] And it
occurs to me there are no servants here who can help me.
Hemming. That shall I willingly do!
Ingeborg. No, thanks. — And all my good clothes — I didn't bring
anything along except my bridal gown which I am wearing.
Hemming. That was thoughtless of you!
Ingeborg. True enough, Hemming! And for that reason you shall
steal down to Guldvik some night and bring me clothes and other
things as much as I have need of.
Hemming. And be hanged as a thief!
Ingeborg. No, you shall be careful and cautious — that I warn
you. But when finally the long winter comes? There are no
people up here — music and dancing we shall never have — Hemming!
Shall we stay here or —
Hemming. Well, where else is there we can go?
Ingeborg. [Impatiently.] Yes, but human beings cannot live
Hemming. Why, surely, they can!
Ingeborg. Well, you see yourself they are all of them dead!
Hemming! I think it best I go home to my father.
Hemming. But what will become of me?
Ingeborg. You shall go to war!
Hemming. To war! And be killed!
Ingeborg. Not at all! You shall perform some illustrious deed,
and then will you be made a knight, and then will my father no
longer be opposed to you.
Hemming. Yes, but what if they kill me in the meantime?
Ingeborg. Well, we'll have plenty of time to think about that.
Today and tomorrow we shall have to remain here, I suppose; so
long will the guests sit in the festive house and celebrate — if
they look for us, it will probably be about in the village; up
here we can be safe and —
[She stops and listens.]
Chorus. [Far away off the stage to the right.]
Away — away to find
Alfhild, the false, unkind;
For all our woe and strife
She must pay with her life!
Hemming. Ingeborg! Ingeborg! They are after us!
Ingeborg. Where shall we find refuge?
Hemming. Well, how can I know —
Ingeborg. Go into the hut; lock the door so that it can be
bolted from within.
Hemming. Yes, but —
Ingeborg. Do as I say! I shall go up on the hill the meanwhile
and see if they are far away.
[She goes out to the right.]
Hemming. Yes, yes! Alas, if only they don't get us!
[He goes into the house.]
[OLAF comes from the forest to the left. Immediately afterwards INGEBORG from the right.]
Olaf. [Looks about and calls softly.] Alfhild! Alfhild! She
is nowhere to be seen! Like a bird she disappeared from my view
into the wood and I—
Ingeborg. They are right close and —
[Stops, frightened.]
Ingeborg. Olaf Liljekrans!
Olaf. Ingeborg!
Hemming. [Sticks his head out of the door and spies OLAF.]
Lord Olaf! So! Now is it surely all up with me!
[Withdraws hastily.]
Ingeborg. [Aside.] He must have ridden in advance of the rest.
Olaf. [Aside.] She must have come up here with her father to
look for me.
Ingeborg. [Aside.] But I will not go with him!
Olaf. [Aside.] I will not stir from here!
Ingeborg. [Aloud, as she draws nearer.] Olaf Liljekrans! Now
you have me; but you will do ill if you try to compel me.
Olaf. That is furthest from my mind!
Ingeborg. Why then come you here in company with my kinsmen?
Olaf. Do I? On the contrary, it is you who —
Ingeborg. That invention won't fool me; only a moment ago I saw
the whole crowd —
Olaf. Who? Who?
Ingeborg. My father and our relatives!
Olaf. Up here?
Ingeborg. Why, yes, right close at hand!
Olaf. Ah, then is my mother with them.
Ingeborg. Of course, she is with them. But how can that
frighten you?
Olaf. You see — it is I they seek!
Ingeborg. No, it is I!
Olaf. [Astonished.] You!
Ingeborg. [Begins to grasp the connection.] Or — wait a
moment — Ha, ha, ha! What an idea! Come, shall we two be honest
with each other?
Olaf. Yes, that is exactly what I had in mind!
Ingeborg. Well, then, tell me, at what hour came you up here?
Olaf. During the night!
Ingeborg. I, too!
Olaf. You!
Ingeborg. Yes, yes! And you went away without any one's knowing
Olaf. Yes!
Ingeborg. I, too!
Olaf. But tell me —
Ingeborg. Hush, we have only a moment or two! And you fled up
here because you had but little desire to go to the altar with
Olaf. Aye, how can you think —
Ingeborg. Yes, that I can easily think. Answer me now; we were
to speak honestly.
Olaf. Well, then, it was therefore that I—
Ingeborg. Well and good, I did likewise!
Olaf. You, Ingeborg!
Ingeborg. And now you would rather not have any one come upon
your tracks?
Olaf. Well, it can't be denied!
Ingeborg. I, too! Aha — 'tis a jolly coincidence; I fled from
you, and you from me! We both fled up here, and now just as our
relatives are after us we meet again! Listen, Olaf Liljekrans!
Say we promise not to betray one another!
Olaf. I promise.
Ingeborg. But now we must part!
Olaf. I understand!
Ingeborg. For, if they found us together, then —
Olaf. Yes, then it would be still more difficult for you to be
rid of me!
Ingeborg. Farewell! If ever I come to have a wedding you shall
be my bride's man.
Olaf. And if anything like that should happen to me, you will, I
am sure, accommodate me in the same way.
Ingeborg. Of course! Farewell! Farewell! And do not think
unkindly of me.
Olaf. Indeed not; I shall give you my hand wherever we meet!
Ingeborg. I, too! Wherever we meet — only not at the altar.
[She goes into the house. OLAF goes into the forest on the right
at the back.]
[LADY KIRSTEN, ARNE of Guldvik, WEDDING GUESTS, PEASANTS and SERVANTS from the right.]
Lady kirsten. See, here will we begin the hunt. Our people must
spread about and search all around the tarn; — she shall come
forth and then — woe upon her! no mercy or pity is there in my
Arne. What will you do then?
Lady kirsten. Hold judgment upon her — right on the spot where
she is found! All the damage she has done on my dominions I have
power and authority to punish in accordance with reason and
Arne. Yes, but what good is that? What is lost can not thereby
be won back again.
Lady kirsten. No, but I shall get revenge, and that is no little
gain. Revenge — revenge I must have, if I am to bear and live
down my loss and all the shame she has brought upon me. The
storm last night ruined the whole of my year's crop; not a single
uninjured straw is left in my fields; and in here, where she
herself has said she has her home, here everything thrives and
blossoms more luxuriantly than I have ever seen! Is not that the
operation of secret arts? Olaf she has snared so securely in her
devilish net that he fled out of the village in the wildest storm
to follow her. My house she burned clear to the ground; all the
openings and doors she barred on the outside; — it was a miracle
of God that the servants brought their timely help!
Arne. Alas, alas; I am afraid if has cost two lives that I
thought much of — Ingeborg and my man Hemming!
Lady kirsten. Come, come, Lord Arne! You must not completely
despair of them yet. Ingeborg may have escaped after all; the
rest of us came out of it untouched in spite of the cunning of
the cursed witch; — Ingeborg has been bewildered with fright and
has sought refuge somewhere.
Arne. Yes, yes, that may be the case with Ingeborg; but Hemming
is past all hope — of that I am sure!
Lady kirsten. How so?
Arne. O, he had become such a sly and contriving devil of late!
He has let himself be shut in and burnt merely to get revenge
over me; he knows I can't get along for a single day without him.
O, I know him!
Lady kirsten. Well, however it is, Alfhild we must capture; she
shall be tried, condemned, and punished; I have misdeeds a plenty
to charge her with.
Arne. And I can mention a few in case it is necessary; she has
stolen my dapple-gray horse from the stable; this morning it was
gone with saddle and bridle.
Lady kirsten. [Aside.] Ingeborg and Hemming gone, and his horse
likewise; were I in his place I should know what to think.
Lady kirsten. [Aloud.] Now let us divide and go about in small
groups; he who first gets his eye on Alfhild shall blow the
trumpet or horn; let the rest listen and follow the sound till we
are assembled again.
[They go out at different sides.]
Arne. [Who alone has remained.] And I, who am not acquainted
here — how am I to find my way.
Arne. [Calls.] Hemming! Hemming!
Arne. I forgot — he is —
Arne. [Shaking his head.] Hm! It was a shameful trick he
[He goes out to the right.]
[ALFHILD appears near the tarn to the left; she carries a little bundle.]
Alfhild. I have wailed, I have wept, till my heart is sore;
I am weary and tired, I can weep no more!
[Sinks down on a stone in the foreground.]
Alfhild. First to my father farewell I shall say!
Then into the mountains I make my way!
Down here I see Olaf wherever I go;
I must up in the heights to steel my mind!
I must deaden my grief, forget what I know,
And leave all the memories dear behind!
Alfhild. The life in my dream had so rosy a hue!
'Tis nothing but fiction, nothing is true —
'Tis nothing but nonsense and shifting lies;
Naught can be seized and held in the hand.
Naught must be looked at with open eyes,
Nothing stands proof when we understand!
[The sound of trumpets is heard from the wood.]
Alfhild. My mother's heirlooms I take with me;
I shall bury them deep in the ground!
I shall bury them deep 'neath the tall birch tree,
Over yonder where Olaf I found!
[She opens her bundle and takes out a bridal crown and other
Alfhild. This crown did my mother once wear on her head;
She too by the world then was tricked and misled,
She too then in love and its power believed.
Was she too so rudely deceived?
Was it only in jest that my father did sing
The pleasures that gladden the human breast?
Ah, then he should never have said anything;
His songs have robbed me of earthly rest;
His songs built a home for the ecstasies
Of life in my heart — now in ruin it lies!
[The trumpets are heard again.]
Alfhild. Silver indeed is a metal of worth,
'Twill never crumble like autumn hay.
Were it hid for a thousand years in the earth,
It would still glitter bright, it would never decay!
The pleasures of life are like autumn hay,
And sorrow like silver that glitters alway!
[Ties the ornaments together in the bundle.]
Alfhild. A magic treasure I often recall,
From which dropped nine glorious pearls every night;
But no matter how many the pearls it let fall,
The treasure remained just as big and as bright!
Alfhild. A treasure of magic, this sorrow of mine,
And from it shall drip by night and by day,
Not nine — but ten thousand pearls that shine —
Yet the treasure shall never decay! —
Yes, the world has made me so wise — so wise!
Once I followed the clouds in their flight,
Flew dreaming with them on their path in the skies,
And called them the swans of the light!
I thought that the trees spread their branches so wide,
That I might walk in the shade;
I thought there was life in the mountain side.
A sorry mistake I have made.
Now I know better; — for man alone
Can revel in joy, can suffer despair.
In tree and in flower, friend there is none —
My sorrow alone I must bear.
[She rises.]
Alfhild. Away then! Up midst the ice and the snow —
The grave is the only shelter below!
[She starts to leave.]
[ALFHILD, LADY KIRSTEN, ARNE, WEDDING GUESTS, PEASANTS and SERVANTS from various sides. Later OLAF LILJEKRANS.]
Lady kirsten. There she is! Stand still, Alfhild! Do not try
to escape — else we shall shoot you.
Alfhild. What do you want of me?
Lady kirsten. That you shall learn soon enough.
Lady kirsten. [Points to her bundle.] What is this you are
Alfhild. My mother's treasures!
Lady kirsten. Give it here! See, see! A crown of silver!
Indeed, Alfhild! If you are your mother's only daughter I am
very much afraid the bridal crown will nevermore be needed in her
Lady kirsten. [To the Servants.] Bind her! She stands there
and pretends to be sad; no one can know what she is scheming.
[ALFHILD is bound.]
Lady kirsten. [Aloud and with suppressed passion.] The court is
ready. As you all know, I have a legal and prescriptive right to
protect my dominions, to pass judgment in accordance with the law
of the realm on every one who does me harm on my own lands. This
is what you, Alfhild, have presumed to do, and it is therefore
that you now stand here accused before your judge. Defend
yourself if you can, but do not forget it is a matter of life and
Arne. But listen, Lady Kirsten!
Lady kirsten. Excuse me, Lord Arne! I am within my rights here,
and I intend to insist on them.
Lady kirsten. [To ALFHILD.] Come forward and answer me!
Alfhild. Do you but question me — I shall answer!
Lady kirsten. Many and grievous are the charges that are
directed against you. First and foremost I charge you here with
having beguiled my son, Olaf Liljekrans, with your unholy arts,
so that he turned heart and soul away from his betrothed to whom
he was pledged — so that he, sick in heart, never at any time
found peace in his home, but came up here to this unknown valley
where you have had your home. All this could not have happened
in any ordinary way; you are therefore accused of
witchcraft — defend yourself if you can.
Alfhild. I have little to say in answer to this. Witchcraft you
call that strange power that drew Olaf up here. Perhaps you are
right; but this witchcraft was not of evil; — every hour that Olaf
has been here God must surely have witnessed! Each thought that
I have had of Olaf the angels of God must have known! And they
had no occasion to blush.
Lady kirsten. Enough, enough! You would add blasphemy to your
transgression! Woe upon you, Alfhild! Your every word only adds
weight to the scales. Yet, that is your affair!
Lady kirsten. [To the rest.] I crave you all as witnesses to
her answer.
[Turns to ALFHILD.]
Lady kirsten. I charge you next with having again, this very
night, with the aid of these same secret powers, met Olaf up
here, and furthermore that you keep him concealed in here!
Alfhild. There you are right! Secretly is he hidden here!
Lady kirsten. You admit it?
Alfhild. Yes, but however powerful you are, you will never be
able to set him free. Perhaps it would be best for me if you
were able; but neither you nor the whole wide world have the
power to set him free!
Lady kirsten. [In a violent outburst.] Now death will certainly
be your punishment! Out with it — where have you got him?
Alfhild. [Presses her hands to her bosom.] In here — in my
heart! If you can tear him out from it you can practice
witchcraft better than I!
Lady kirsten. That answer is nothing. Out with it — where is
Alfhild. I have answered!
Lady kirsten. [With repressed irritation.] Good!
Arne. [To the spectators.] Were Hemming alive he would have
been able to get the truth out of her; he had become so crafty of
Lady kirsten. Now the third charge against you: last night you
set fire to my house and burned it clear to the ground. Perhaps
human life has been lost — that we not know as yet — but whether
or no, it will neither harm nor help your cause; for your
intention to burn all of us is as clear as day. Do you deny my
charge that you set fire to my home last night?
Alfhild. I do not deny it; I have destroyed your house!
Lady kirsten. And how will you extenuate your action?
Lady kirsten. [With bitter mockery.] You shall not be able to
say that you acted over hastily. Good opportunity you had, so
far as I can remember, to stop and consider; you stood outside
there, no one came near you, no one prevented you from
deliberating as calmly as you could. Nor shall you say that the
merriment of the festive occasion went to your head, nor that the
wine distracted you; for you were not on the inside at all; you
stood on the outside, and it was cool enough there — the biting
wind should have made you sober.
Alfhild. Yes, I destroyed your house last night; but you and
Olaf and all the rest of you out there have done me a greater
wrong. The world was to me a festive hall which belonged to the
Great Father. The blue heaven was its roof, the stars were the
lamps that shone from its ceiling. I wandered happy and rich in
all this; but you, you threw a brand right in the midst of this
golden splendor; now is everything withered and dead!
Lady kirsten. Such talk will profit you little! Still once more
I ask, where is Olaf Liljekrans, my son?
Alfhild. I have answered!
Lady kirsten. Then you have also passed your own sentence, and I
shall confirm it.
[OLAF appears on the rocky cliff among the trees, unnoticed by
the rest.]
Olaf. [Aside.] Alfhild! God help me! What is that?
[Withdraws unseen.]
Lady kirsten. You have, in accordance with the law of the land,
incurred the penalty of death as guilty of witchcraft and arson.
This sentence is herewith pronounced upon you, and forthwith
right here on the spot it shall be executed.
Arne. But listen, Lady Kirsten!
Lady kirsten. Judgment is pronounced! Alfhild shall die!
Alfhild. Do as you please; little shall I be of hindrance to
you. When Olaf denied his love, then ceased my life — I live no
Lady kirsten. Take her up on the rocky ledge over there.
[Two Servants take ALFHILD up.]
Lady kirsten. For the last time, Alfhild! Give me back my son!
Alfhild. I will answer no more!
Lady kirsten. Just as you please!
Lady kirsten. [To the Servants.] Cast her down! No, wait! I
have an idea!
Lady kirsten. [To ALFHILD.] As you stand there, I remember you
again as you yesterday came forward with the golden crown and
thought you were worthy to be Olaf Liljekrans' bride. Now we
soon shall see how much you are worth; there are present here
peasants and servants and many humble men; — perhaps your life can
still be saved! Yes, Alfhild! You stare at me, but so it is; I
will be merciful to you!
Lady kirsten. [Turns to the rest.]
You all know the old custom, that when a woman is sentenced to death for a capital offence, as she is, her life will be saved and she will be free if an irreproachable man comes forth and upholds her innocence and declares himself ready and willing to marry her. That custom you know?
All. Yes, yes!
Alfhild. [Bursting into tears.] O, to be mocked — mocked so
terribly in my last hour!
Lady kirsten. Well then, Alfhild! This custom you shall have
the benefit of. If the most humble man in my company comes forth
and declares himself willing to marry you, then are you free.
Lady kirsten. [Looks about.] Is there no one who applies?
[All are silent.]
Lady kirsten. Give her the silver crown; that shall go in the
bargain; perhaps, Alfhild, you will then rise in value!
[The crown is placed on ALFHILD's head.]
Lady kirsten. For the second time I ask — is any one willing to
save her?
[She looks about. All are silent.]
Lady kirsten. Now for it; I am afraid your moments are numbered.
Hear me well, you servants up there! Should no one answer my
third call, then do you watch for a sign from me and cast her
into the lake! Use now your arts, Alfhild! See if you can
conjure yourself free from death.
Lady kirsten. [With a loud voice.] For the last time! There
stands the witch and incendiary! Who will save and marry her?
[She looks about. All are silent. — LADY KIRSTEN raises her hand
quickly as a signal, the Servants seize ALFHILD; in the same
moment OLAF rushes out on the ledge in full wedding garb.]
Olaf. I will save and marry her!
[He thrusts the SERVANTS aside and unbinds her. ALFHILD sinks
with a cry on his bosom; he puts his left arm around her and
raises his right arm threateningly in the air.]
All. [Stand as if turned to stone.] Olaf Liljekrans!
Lady kirsten. Olaf Liljekrans, my son! What have you done?
Disgraced yourself for all time!
Olaf. No, I blot out the shame and disgrace which I brought on
myself by my treatment of her! My sin I shall expiate and make
myself happy the while!
Olaf. [Brings ALFHILD forward.] Yes, before all of you I
solemnly proclaim this young woman my bride! She is innocent of
all that has been charged against her; I only have transgressed.
[Kneels before her.]
Olaf. And at your feet I beg you to forget and forgive —
Alfhild. [Raises him.] Ah, Olaf! You have given me back all
the glory of the world!
Lady kirsten. You will marry her! Well and good; then am I no
longer a mother to you!
Olaf. You will cause me great sorrow, although it is now long
since that you were a real mother to me. You used me merely to
build aloft your own pride, and I was weak and acquiesced. But
now have I won power and will; now I stand firmly on my own feet
and lay the foundation of my own happiness!
Lady kirsten. But do you stop to consider —
Olaf. Nothing will I now consider — I know what I want. Now
first I understand my strange dream. It was prophesied of me
that I was to find the fairest of flowers — that I was to tear it
asunder and strew it to all the winds. O, thus it has happened!
A woman's heart is the fairest flower in the world; all its rich
and golden leaves I have torn asunder and scattered to the winds.
But be of good cheer, my Alfhild! Many a seed has gone too, and
sorrow has ripened it, and from it shall grow a rich life for us
here in the valley; for here shall we live and be happy!
Alfhild. O, now I am happy as in the first hour we met.
Lady kirsten. [Aside.] Ingeborg is gone; this rich valley
belongs to Alfhild — no one else has a claim to it —
Lady kirsten. [Aloud.] Well, Olaf! I shall not stand in the
way of your happiness. If you think you will find it in this
way, then — well, then you have my consent!
Olaf. Thanks, mother, thanks! Now I lack nothing more!
Alfhild. [To LADY KIRSTEN.] And me you forgive all my sin?
Lady kirsten. Yes, yes! Perhaps I too was wrong — let us not
say any more of that!
Arne. But I, then? And my daughter, whom Olaf had pledged — Yet,
it is true, perhaps she is no longer alive!
Olaf. Of course she's alive!
Arne. She lives! Where is she? Where?
Olaf. That I can not say; but I may say that we both in all
friendliness have broken our pledge.
Lady kirsten. You see, Lord Arne! that I—
Arne. Well, my daughter shall not be forced upon any one.
Alfhild was fated to marry a knight; the same may happen to
Arne. [With dignity.] Noble lords and honorable men, hear me!
It has come to my ear that many of you hold me to be little
skilled in courtly manners and customs. I will show you now you
are completely mistaken. In the old chronicles it is frequently
told that when a noble king loses his daughter he promises her
hand and half his kingdom to him who may find her; he who finds
Ingeborg shall receive her hand in marriage and in addition half
of all that I own and possess. Are you with me on that?
The young men. Yes, yes!
[The Preceding. INGEBORG comes hurriedly out of the hut and pulls HEMMING behind her.]
Ingeborg. Here I am! Hemming has found me!
All. [ASTONISHED] Ingeborg and Hemming! Up here!
Arne. [Irritated.] Ah, then shall —
Ingeborg. [Throws herself about his neck.] O father, father!
It will not avail you; you have given your word!
Arne. But that did not apply to him! Now I see it all right; he
has taken you away himself.
Ingeborg. No, to the contrary, father! It was I who took him
Arne. [Frightened.] Will you be silent with such words! Are
you out of your head?
Ingeborg. [Softly.] Then say "yes" right here on the spot!
Otherwise I shall proclaim to all people that it was I who —
Arne. Hush, hush! I am saying "yes"!
[Steps between them and looks sternly at HEMMING.]
Arne. It was you then who stole my dapple-gray horse with saddle
and bridle?
Hemming. Alas, Lord Arne! —
Arne. O Hemming! Hemming! You are a —
[Stops to consider.]
Arne. Well, you are my daughter's betrothed; let it all be
Hemming and ingeborg. O, thanks, thanks!
[The Preceding. THORGJERD with a harp in his hand has during the foregoing mingled with the people.]
Thorgjerd. Aye, see, see! A multitude of people in the valley
The peasants. Thorgjerd, the fiddler!
Alfhild. [Throws herself in his arms.] My father!
All. Her father!
Olaf. Yes, yes, old man! There are people and merriment in here
today, and hereafter it shall always be thus. It is your
daughter's wedding we are celebrating; for love has she chosen
her betrothed, of love have you sung for her — you will not stand
in our way!
Thorgjerd. May all good spirits guard you well!
Alfhild. And you will remain with us!
Thorgjerd. No, no, Alfhild!
A minstrel has never a place to rest,
His soul fares afar, he forever must roam!
For he who has music deep down in his breast,
Is never in mountains or lowlands at home;
In the meadows green, in the sheltering bower,
He must touch the strings and sing every hour,
He must watch for the life that lives in the shower,
Beneath the wild fjord, in the rushing stream,
Must watch for the life that beats in the soul,
And clothe in music what people but dream,
And give voice to its sorrow and dole!
Olaf. But sometime you will surely visit us here!
Now shall 'mid the birches a hall be erected;
Here, my Alfhild! shall you be protected.
I and my love will always be near,
No more shall your eye be dimmed with a tear!
Alfhild. Yes, now I see — life is precious and kind!
Rich as the fairest dream of the mind!
So dreary and black is never our sorrow —
'Tis followed sometime by a bright sunny morrow!
Alfhild. [Kneels.] O angels of God! you have led me aright,
Again you have granted me solace and bliss!
You guided my wandering past the abyss,
You steadied my foot that was weak and slight!
O, if with my mind I cannot understand —
With my heart I'll believe to the last!
Yes, heavenly powers! You still watch o'er the land!
Clear is the sun when the dark storm is passed; —
From death and destruction my love did you save:
So now then let happen what may!
For now I am cheerful, now am I brave,
Ready for life and its motley affray!
Alfhild. [With a glance at OLAF.] And when we at length —
[She pauses and stretches her arms above her head.]
Alfhild. by the angels of love
Are borne to our home in the heavens above!
[The rest have formed a group around her; the curtain falls.]
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Volume 37, Issue 8 - Dec 2013
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Impacts of Ethical Consumption Beliefs on Attitudes toward Eco-Friendly Faux Leather Apparel Products and Mediating Roles of Perceived Consumer Effectiveness and Apparel Environmental Knowledge
Jung, Hye Jung ; Oh, Kyung Wha ;
Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles, volume 37, issue 2, 2013, Pages 125~137
This study investigated the conceptual constructs of ethical consumption beliefs and their impacts on the consumer attitudes toward eco-friendly faux leather apparel goods. The mediating roles of perceived consumer effectiveness and apparel environmental knowledge were examined in this research. A survey was conducted on female consumers between the ages of 20 and 50; subsequently, 300 responses were analyzed. The results of this study were follows: 1) The results of factor analysis and the reliability test on ethical consumption beliefs clearly showed factorial structures that include Social Responsibility, Eco-friendly Consumption, Animal Welfare, and Individual Enhancement. 2) The results of the mean scores of ethical consumption beliefs showed that respondents tended to consider Social Responsibility more important than the other three factors. Ethical consumption beliefs showed a significantly positive influence on consumer attitudes toward eco-friendly faux leather apparel products; in addition, Social Responsibility had the highest effect on product attitudes among the four factors of ethical consumption beliefs. 3) The perceived consumer effectiveness and environmental knowledge of apparel had important medicating roles in the relation-ship between ethical consumption beliefs and attitudes towards eco-friendly faux leather apparel products. This study highlighted a potential marketability of eco-friendly faux leather apparel products and that ethical consumption beliefs, perceived consumer effectiveness, and apparel environmental knowledge should be promoted among consumers to increase favorable attitudes towards these products.
Changes in Body Size and Fitness According to Breast and Brassiere Types
Choi, Jin Young ; Sohn, Boo Hyun ; Kweon, Soo Ae ;
Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles, volume 37, issue 2, 2013, Pages 138~150
This study investigates changes in body size (as well as fit) before/after wear, according to the breast and brassiere type. To offer producers basic data on how to develop excellent brassieres, we accordingly conducted preliminary research on 183 20`s women. The research revealed that breast-related size and fit change by about 10%; however, the upper length and inner length of breasts decreases. The fit of domed ones is the best and the fit of the elongated ones is the worst; subsequently, a closer representation of the ideal breast leads to a better fit to wear.
The Physical Properties of Knitted Fabric with Hanji/Rayon
Kim, Su Mi ; Song, Wha Soon ;
Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles, volume 37, issue 2, 2013, Pages 151~158
This study presents basic knitted fabric data on the use of ply yarn with rayon yarn and eco-friendly/high-valued Hanji yarn. Physical properties (gauge, thickness, burst strength, air permeability, stiffness, Qmax, dimensional stability and surface image) of Hanji 100%, rayon 100% and Hanji/rayon 50:50 knitted fabrics are investigated. The results are as follows. Course direction of gauge decrease in the following order: rayon 100% > Hanji/rayon 50/50 > Hanji 100%. In addition wale direction of gauge decrease in the following order: Hanji 100% > Hanji/rayon 50/50 > rayon 50/50. Thickness and air permeability decrease in the following order: Hanji 100% > Hanji/rayon 50/50 > rayon 100%. Burst strength decrease in the following order: rayon 100% > Hanji 100% > Hanji/rayon 50/50. Stiffness and Qmax decrease in the following order: rayon 100% > Hanji/rayon 50/50 > Hanji 100%. Laundry for dimensional stability is knitted fabric with Hanji/rayon 50/50 than rayon 100% and Hanji 100% improved using neutral detergent and stable at
. From surface image observation, the cracks of Hanji 100% and fibrils of rayon 100% decrease when using knitted fabric with Hanji/rayon 50/50.
The Roles of Benefit and Risk Perception in Ethical Fashion Consumption
Moon, Heekang ; Choo, Ho Jung ; Park, Hye Sun ; Baek, Eunsoo ;
Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles, volume 37, issue 2, 2013, Pages 159~173
This research investigates the mechanism of ethical fashion consumption by examining the effects of benefit and risk perception on ethical fashion consumption attitudes and behavioral intention. To test the hypotheses, 300 female consumers between the ages of 20 and 49 were invited as study participants. The reliability and the validity of multi-item constructs were tested by Confirmatory Factor Analysis. The hypotheses were tested by utilizing Structural Equation Analysis and hierarchical multiple regression analysis. The benefit perception of ethical consumption was composed of three benefit types, which were altruistic benefit, social image benefit, and self-oriented benefit. Benefit perception, except social image benefit, had significant effects on consumer attitudes towards ethical fashion consumption; similarly, benefit perception had significant effects on behavioral intention (except self-oriented benefit) which had an effect on behavioral intention only when it was mediated by attitudes. Further analysis was conducted to understand the reason for the weak relationship between attitudes and behavioral intention. Financial and performance risk perceptions were tested for the moderating roles of attitudes and behavioral intention; subsequently, only financial risk interacted with attitudes and showed that the positive effects of attitudes on behavioral intention were weakened by a high financial risk perception. Performance risk had a main effect on behavioral intention independent of attitudes. Managerial implication and future study directions are also discussed.
Images of Hanji-Bedclothes According to Bedclothes Shopping Orientation
Ju, Jeongah ; Kim, Hyunchul ;
Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles, volume 37, issue 2, 2013, Pages 174~185
This study examines shopping orientation regarding bedclothes and the effect of the segmentation of consumers on the image of Hanji yarn bedclothes derived from mulberry fiber in order to contribute to the development of Hanji bedclothes products and consumer marketing segmentation. Data from 294 questionnaires filled out by female consumers in their 30s to 50s were used for statistical analysis. The shopping orientations for bedclothes are classified into six groups (trend oriented, material oriented, price oriented, convenience oriented, individuality oriented, and assurance oriented). Consumers were subdivided into four consumer segments (show-offish, self-confident, reasonable, and unconcerned case) based on shopping orientations for bedclothes. The images of Hanji bedclothes are categorized into four types (classic, practical, aesthetic, and natural) as related to the shopping orientations of consumers. In terms of consumer segmentation, the `reasonable` segment is more likely to consider the `classic` image of Hanji bedclothes as the highest image value; however, the `show-offish` segment provides the highest value to the `practical` image as compared to other segments.
The Effects of Fashion Mobile Word-of Mouth -Focus on Facebook-
Jung, Jieun ; Choo, Ho Jung ; Lee, Ha Kyung ;
Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles, volume 37, issue 2, 2013, Pages 186~201
This study investigates the effects of information type, direction of information, method of suggestion, tie strength, and interactions among these variables on the acceptance and diffusion of fashion product information in the mobile Facebook environment. Two subsequent studies were conducted to test the relationships among mobile SNS WOM factors. Two independent on-line surveys were implemented. Six hundred forty consumers aged between 20 and 39 were recruited for Study 1, and four hundred and eighty for Study 2. We manipulated the WOM delivery situation by information type (factual/evaluative), information directionality (positive/negative), tie-strength (strong/weak), and information presentation method (text/image/rink). Eight scenarios were developed and randomly assigned to the research participants. Frequency analysis, reliability, factor analysis, regression analysis, and ANOVA were implemented using SPSS 18.0. The Analysis of experiment data produced interesting results. Most WOM factors (including the information type, information presentation method, and tie strength) influence WOM acceptance; however, only the tie strength effected WOM activity. It was also proven that people are prone to accept information that is more realistic, objective, and negative, and they tend to accept information with visual factors, such as images and video clips rather than a simple text message. In this study, we offer a practical perspective to fashion industry and marketers who have an interest in SNS marketing. We have defined the distinct characteristics of mobile WOM that have been formed by a combination of former on/off-line WOM characteristics. To examine the moderating roles of two types of consumer innovativeness, fashion innovativeness and technology innovativeness were also measured and found to have significant moderating effects between mobile SNS WOM factors and their consequences. The paper concludes with a discussion on managerial implications and limitations.
The Physical Environment Influence of Chinese Department Stores and Consumer`s Internal Responses on Store Loyalty
Zhang, Ting-Ting ; Jun, Ji-Hyun ; Rhee, Young-Sun ;
Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles, volume 37, issue 2, 2013, Pages 202~212
Outstanding service quality is a crucial factor to increase customer revisits, to increase customer revisits, to create new customers through positive word-of-mouth marketing and increase profits; in conjunction, the physical environment of department stores have a firsthand impact on customer purchasing behavior. This study examines the physical environment dimensions of department stores in China and the causal relationship with the physical environment, service environment, internal responses and store loyalty. The subjects in this study were male and female adults who finished the shopping the Lotte and Wangfujing Department Store located in Beijing. All participants were over the age of 20 and a one-on-one survey was conducted to gather data from October to November 2011. Data from 424 respondents were analyzed: in addition, AMOS factor analysis and path analysis were used. The results were as follows. First, physical environment factors consist of exterior aesthetic attraction, convenience, cleanliness and an interior aesthetic attraction. Second, exterior aesthetic attraction, convenience and cleanliness affect the overall service environment perception. Third, the service environment exercised an influence on internal responses, and internal responses impacted store loyalty. Fourth, a comparative analysis was made over Korean and Chinese department stores in China to check the research model. In Wangfujing Department Store, exterior aesthetic attraction, cleanliness and convenience had a statistically significant impact on service environment perceptions. In Lotte Department Store, the perception of service environment was under the statistically significant influence of all physical factors (exterior aesthetic attraction, interior aesthetic attraction, convenience and cleanliness). The findings of this study are helpful for Korean Department stores that plan to make inroads into China to formulate efficient service environment strategies tailored to local consumer characteristics.
Item Development for Fashion Products Using Creative Thinking Methods -A Case of Velvet Products-
Chung, Ihn Hee ;
Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles, volume 37, issue 2, 2013, Pages 213~223
This study presents the process of fashion item development with velvet through creative thinking methods. Creativity is one of the most important requirements for a successful job career and education enhancing creative thinking is needed in the area of fabrication, product design, and marketing strategy development. Velvet was selected as a research stimulus because it is a luxurious fabric with various differential properties such as a soft touch, unique luster, excellent drapability, and fine physical properties. The research methodology included creative thinking methods review, the selection of the tools, idea sourcing and listing, sequential idea evaluation and sample product making. After review of the various creative thinking methods, a combination method and forced connection method were employed as research tools to confirm the usefulness of creative thinking training because of their independence of use and application simplicity. A total of 12 university students participated as subjects in this research. After some training, each student derived ten ideas for velvet products that utilized a combination method and forced connection method. A total of 120 ideas were evaluated for novelty, technical possibility, practicality, and marketability; subsequently, 24 ideas were adopted and developed as sample products. The effectiveness of creativity education in fabrication and product design classes was verified through the whole process of product planning.
Fabrication of Core-Sheath Nanocomposite Fibers by Co-axial Electrospinning
Kang, Minjung ; Lee, Seungsin ;
Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles, volume 37, issue 2, 2013, Pages 224~234
This study investigates the fabrication of core-sheath nanocomposite fibers by locating germanium (Ge) and silicon dioxide (
) nanoparticles selectively in the sheath layer by co-axial electrospinning. Co-axially spun fibers were prepared by electrospinning a pure PVA solution and Ge/
/PVA solution as the core and sheath layer, respectively. Core-sheath nanocomposite fibers were electrospun under a variety of conditions that include various feed rates for the core and sheath solutions, voltages, and concentric needle diameters, in order to find an optimum spinning condition. Ge/
nanocomposite fibers were also prepared by uniaxial electrospinning to compare fiber morphology and nanoparticle distribution with core-sheath nanofibers. Using scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, and energy dispersive X-ray analysis, it was demonstrated that the co-axial approach resulted in the presence of nanoparticles near the surface region of the fibers compared to the overall distribution obtained for uni-axial fibers. The co-axially electrospun Ge/
/PVA nanofiber webs have possible uses in high efficiency functional textiles in which the nanoparticles located in the sheath region provide enhanced functionality.
Physiological Responses of Wearing Protective Welding Clothing Considering the Work Environment of the Shipbuilding Industry
Kim, Min-Young ; Bae, Hyun-Sook ;
Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles, volume 37, issue 2, 2013, Pages 235~245
Physiological responses and subjective sensations were evaluated for wearing protective welding clothing in consideration of the work environment for the shipbuilding industry. Experimental clothing was made of oxidant carbon nonwoven fabric (SW2) and oxidant carbon/p-aramid blended fabric (SW4). The values of all items in physiological responses were higher upon wearing oxidant carbon experimental clothing versus wearing oxidant carbon/p-aramid experimental clothing (p<.001). The results of the wearing evaluation in the welding work on-site showed that existing leather protective clothing had a very low satisfaction of permeability, weight sensation and wearing sensation. For the wearing sensation of experimental clothing with SW2, permeability and durability were poor and the pressure and weight sensation satisfaction was very high. In case of SW4, the satisfaction was very high in functional movement, pressure, weight sensation and management aspects; subsequently, the overall wearing satisfaction was very good.
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Improving African Justice Systems Essential To Prevent Spread Of HIV And TB In Prisons
In order to reduce HIV and TB in African prisons, African governments and international health donors should fund criminal justice reforms, experts from Human Rights Watch say in this week's PLoS Medicine.
"Overcrowding is driving HIV and TB transmission in African prisons, and alleviating overcrowding by increasing the availability of non-custodial alternatives including community service and bail and improving access to legal representation should be understood as essential public health measures for HIV and TB prevention and control," say Joseph Amon and Katherine Todrys from the international human rights organization.Rates of HIV and tuberculosis in sub-Saharan Africa are many times higher in prison than in non-prison populations, due in part to overcrowding and a lack of adequate prevention and treatment services in the prisons. Almost all prisoners eventually leave prison and, along with visitors and prison officers, represent a potential bridge for disease transmission between prison and community populations.
"Thousands of individuals are detained in African prisons unjustly and unnecessarily, including spending long periods in pretrial detention, because of weak criminal justice systems," the authors say. That contributes to the overcrowding that leads to the spread of the diseases.
The authors reached these conclusions by surveying prison commissioners and medical directors in 10 East and Southern African countries with high HIV and TB rates. They also conducted in-depth interviews with prison officials and hundreds of prisoners in Zambia and Uganda and heard many distressing accounts of dire conditions and extreme delays in sentencing, trials, and appeals. One man in a Zambian prison had been held for three years before he first saw a judge.
Furthermore, international human rights law requires countries to maintain adequate prison conditions and provide a minimum level of health care equivalent to that available to the general population. But the authors found significant gaps in the availability of HIV- and TB-related prevention and care.
The authors conclude: "Both increased resources for health, as well as structural interventions addressing criminal justice failures, are necessary to address HIV and TB and advance prisoner and public health. African governments have a responsibility to address the life-threatening conditions in prisons, which are contrary to international law and standards, and to improve prisoners' access to justice."
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Subspace communication is the primary form of communication, used by most warp capable species across the galaxy. Subspace communications are dispatched through subspace in excess of warp factor +9.9999, and can thus, travel incredible distances. (ST reference: Star Trek Encyclopedia)
At close range to a sender of a subspace communication, real-time communication is possible, but outside of that range, their is a time lag depending on how distant the receiver is to the sender. This can be countered with the deployment of subspace relay buoys that act as a booster to subspace messages and allow better communication. (VOY episode: "Message in a Bottle")
An unusual hybrid starship encountered by the USS Enterprise-D in 2370 was remote controlled via subspace signals. (TNG comic: "Strategy")
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EASTER WEEK – Booklet
Print this book out then cut the pages in half Horizontal and the fold the pages together to make a booklet of the last week of Christ's life.
This passport / booklet was used at a ward activity where we went from room to room, each page was represented, each room was decorate someone what or pictures of the event, or they had something to look at that had to do with that room. And someone talked about each event. Then they were given a stamp in the booklet.
We started together then broke up into smaller groups and rotate through the building going to different rooms.
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Bright Beads 4 cluster by Coco Reynolds
Love this set of four pendants made by Coco Reynolds of Marz in Australia. Each one is sold separately as well. This set of four, includes the Alice, Aleenta, Abacus and Africa pendants. Each pendant comes complete with a nickel ceiling rose for permanent installation.
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Handmade new baby card
Large, square, neutral coloured, new baby card, suitable for babies of either sex.
The card features the phrase 'New Baby' stamped and layered over patterned paper, stitched to a coffee coloured card. The card is embellished with die cut bunting and paper flowers.
The insert can be personalised with your own message (please let me know your requirements in the 'note to seller') when purchasing.
Otherwise the insert will read: 'Congratulations on your new arrival'.
The card measures approximately 7" x 7" (17.5cm x 17.5cm) and comes with a white envelope in a cellophane wrapper.
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I show you a piece of a 1:10000 map. I made it with CAD files. I played with colors and lines thickness to make a pleasant map.
The olive color is grass and bush, dark green : forest and the washed yellow is dry land. The orange color is a old cattle track.


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Is information overload a problem our new digital society must solve or are we changing how we learn?
Information Overload
We've gone from a handful of TV channels to more than 500; from a few radio stations to streaming music on demand; from reading the local newspaper to reading publications from around the world.
The Extracting Value from Chaos report from IDC iView provides a staggering overview of our digital footprint.
In 2011, the amount of information created and replicated will surpass 1.8 zettabytes (1.8 trillion gigabytes) – growing by a factor of 9 in just five years.
It's not just digital either. We see this trend in the publishing industry where print-on-demand and self-published books have skyrocketed (pdf).
This does not include Audio or eBooks.
Of course, we're also sharing all of this information at an accelerated rate.
Zuckerberg's Law of Sharing states that sharing activity will double each year.
You know that information is increasing, but you might not realize just how much and how fast it is increasing.
As the amount of information increases many have looked at ways to sift through and make sense of it all. The goal is to find signal amid the noise. Plenty of folks are trying to apply different techniques and algorithms to winnow things down to only the most interesting and relevant.
KnowAboutIt, XYDO, My6Sense, Trunk.ly and Summify among others are all trying to cull the web and deliver the 'right' information to your inbox.
Aggregated social curation sounds logical but I haven't found it very valuable. I find the stuff I already read (or would have found) anyway. Maybe it works if you're not drinking from the information hose, but most of us are doing more of that in one way or the other. I can't imagine relying on just these services for my information.
Many believe that serendipity is an important part of information consumption, but most of the services give this lip service at best. They're doing more of what a good brand marketer would do, cranking out extensions to a known product. In this case that product is the type of content that you and your network of 'friends' are reading. I think you quickly reach a local maxima where you're not finding new things and making new connections.
Today's curation seems more like an echo chamber.
Nicholas Carr thinks the Internet is doing evil things to us and Google might be making us stupid. NPR books summarizes Carr's thesis as follows.
Carr believes that the Internet is a medium based on interruption — and it's changing the way people read and process information. We've come to associate the acquisition of wisdom with deep reading and solitary concentration, and he says there's not much of that to be found online.
Carr might be right about the distraction of the Internet. But this is but one way in which we acquire information. I watch two hour movies straight through, can read a book for hours at a stretch and still conduct lengthy phone calls. The idea that we can only process information in one way seems like an odd conclusion. It would be like saying that because we possess the ability to drive that athletic prowess will decline.
Taking it a step further, there is an assumption that we process information uniformly. Here's where fiction helps reveal a greater truth. The Ghost In Love by Jonathan Carroll explores the division of personality. We are different people throughout our lives, day-by-day and even different people at the same time.
How can we be kind when you were so mean to that stranger the other day? How can we be intelligent when you made such a stupid mistake the other week? Many people struggle with this seeming paradox. But we're not robots! We're not just one monolithic entity that does things the same way every day. Not only do we evolve over time (just think about your musical tastes) but we'll react to information in different ways on an hourly basis. Much of this has to do with context, but I think there are more complex factors at work.
So why do we persist in this notion that we can only comprehend information in one way. That's just patently untrue.
Cut-Up Learning
The cut-up technique was made popular by William Burroughs and is performed by cutting up content and putting it back together in a different order. By doing so, it reveals new words, new insight and new meaning. It's a type of non-linear learning.
I believe the Internet, the great distractor, is a digital version of the cut-up technique. It is actually more powerful because we can cut-up more information from a wide variety of topics and mediums.
We're so consumed with capturing just the right thing, those few articles that will provide insight, that we miss the opportunity to piece together and make connections to a larger puzzle.
The goal isn't to curate and aggregate the content into neat little packages but to cut up the information to unlock trends and insight.
I read a large number of RSS feeds, a diverse blend of literature, photography, analytics, SEO, technology, life hacking, science, local, marketing, design, UX, humor and start-up related blogs. I also let the river of information flow through platforms like FriendFeed, Google+, Pinterest and Twitter.
Do I read every post word for word? No. I'm skimming a lot of the time, both in terms of the type of content that is being generated (the theme and pulse of activity) and the actual content itself. Skimming doesn't mean I'm not getting value from that content. By skimming through a variety of pieces, topics and media I create a very different view of the data that is swirling around me.
That also doesn't prevent me from taking a deep dive on any given piece I find. In fact, I'd hazard that I locate more of these pieces through the act of skimming.
Cut-Up Example
So lets go from theory to practice. I believe Google is extremely interested in creating some sort of AuthorRank based on the quality of and engagement with the content that author produces. Here's the cut-up that leads me to this conclusion.
I watch Steven Levy interviewed by Matt Cutts, and find both Levy's mention of being outranked by Huffington Post interesting but also note the look Cutts gives someone in the audience directly after this remark. I watch this video after authorship is rolled out by Google at SMX Advanced. This is an example of how the cut-up technique doesn't need to be linear.
I keep track of the debate around identity on Google+ and see how their inflexibility on the issue is rooted in ensuring confidence in authorship. I watch the high rate of iteration in the rel="author" program and note who is leading those efforts. I look at which Google Webmaster Central videos in this latest series are released first. Because they record them in large chunks, so the authorship video getting to the head of the line signals a sort of priority.
I read about the acquisitions of companies that measure engagement with content. I ask questions about what Google is doing with PostRank and (repeatedly) get no response. Silence can be a very loud signal.
Those are all signals within the actual topic, though they might be in different media. But I also pay close attention to how Facebook is implementing EdgeRank and note the direction LinkedIn is going as well. Again, those are closely related to authorship and identity so it's not going too far afield.
But there are other vectors that might seem unrelated. I listen to artists who are irate at how their work is taken and used without credit. I key in on articles that highlight the music that is most often sampled by new artists. I listen to the Rick Astley and Nirvana mashup. I laugh at the misattributed quote meme but also think about what it represents. I uncover distasteful social proof manipulation and dive into the argument about influence and whether Klout is accurate.
Alone, each of these things are of passing interest, but with access to so much information I find greater context and meaning.
Mind Hacking
The digital age allows us to peer over the shoulders of more people. A lot of them may provide little to no value but some will be intelligent and provide thoughtful commentary and links. I've become adept at quickly recognizing the difference. It's reminiscent of what Gladwell talks about in Blink.
Maybe I am an outlier and my information consumption behavior is non-traditional, but given the rate in which information is accelerating I believe more and more people will adopt (or be forced into) this type of cut-up learning.
I used to scoff at the number of people Robert Scoble followed, invoking Dunbar's Number as my defense. What I've realized is that there is a vast difference in social relationships versus information discovery.
I still believe in Dunbar's Number as it pertains to relationships but not when it comes to information discovery. I doubt highly that Robert is truly friends with the 32,000 people he follows on Twitter. But he is adept at taking the stream of information those people create and gaining value from it.
Certain tools can help to make cut up learning easier, in part by simply letting you organize what you'll skim. Google Reader is an absolute stellar resource. And no one has beaten the original FriendFeed friend of a friend functionality in delivering new and random things to my worldview. G+ is slowly getting better since I do find a diverse blend of technology, science, art and business that I can peruse.
The curation services? I'll use them. But they're more like an information safety net. My interaction with them is limited to no more than a 10 second skim and scroll of the content for confirmation.
But in the end, the biggest tool we'll have is our mind and our own ability to collect and process all that information. Maybe our brains are being rewired but who's to say that's a bad thing?
I found an article the other day that opined that the way to succeed in business was to know where the customer was going, not where they were now. This was a proxy for how I felt about the difference between curation services and cut up learning. Curation can tell you where things are now, while cut up learning can tell you where things are going.
Information overload may not be a problem we have to solve but instead could lead to a new way of learning. Skimming things does not make us shallow, it may actually make us rich.
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Designers these days are pushing the limits and coming up with spectacular designs that are way ahead of their times. The Clipper CS-1 happens to be one of them. It is a cocoon like workstation created for CAD workers. The interesting part about this design is that it was made way back in the 90's, when even computers were a rarity!
The opaque side screens reduce screen reflections while letting plenty of natural light come through. They also provide much better privacy as compared to an open cubicle. Designed by Douglas Ball and Jeff Sokalski, the capsule office is made of plywood and plastic on a Lexan powder-coated steel frame with a fibreglass seat sporting leather upholstery having customised footrests, extendable sidewing tables and its own air supply.
Designed as part of a Herman Miller study with the aim of improving office cubicle spaces and around 100 were built, one of which is now in the permanent collection at The Museum of Design in London. This design was built for the future in the 90's. Now in the 21st century, that future is here. Hence, the Clipper should be brought out from the museum and into the modern office spaces.
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Clearly, there is pressure on weather
content providers to capitalize on the
Web and the mobile market as consumers
diversify their weather sources from
traditional TV/cable broadcasts to "cyber"
renditions of the weather which they expect
will tell them everything they need
to know about weather conditions anywhere.
Weather broadcasters understand this,
but they also know that reinventing weather
graphics from more stationary formats
of TV/cable broadcasts to the dynamic and
interactive video content that consumers
expect will play on the limited data footprints
of their mobile devices, is a major
challenge. So, too, is establishing a mobile/Web presence for weather that can still
capitalize and identify with the brand
value that broadcasters have already established
on television.
"Today's consumers want hyper-local,
minute-by-minute forecasts to make
more informed decisions about their
short-range activities, such as traveling,
sporting, or other outdoor events, and
they also want photorealisic forecasts
for specific locations," said Ryan Ayres,
vice president of display systems and
service at Accuweather in State College,
Pa. "That's why we focus on enabling TV
newsrooms to tightly integrate weather
forecasts with other newsroom stories
around crime, traffic and other real-time
information and social media posts from
The integration includes the ability to
incorporate graphics and content into
mobile that consumers have grown accustomed
to in traditional broadcasts, such as
the forecast of tomorrow's weather or the
weekend outlook. Conversely, broadcasters
must find ways to incorporate Web-derived
content elements (like social media)
into broadcasts.
Just how do these new demands alter the approach to weather graphics for
Mobile devices have limited data footprints,
constrained by less memory, storage
and processing, and significantly smaller
screen sizes than traditional television.
Internet service providers in many areas
of the country also have bandwidth constraints
that impede the quality of video
downloads and streaming. "Patterns of
use are different as well," said Dempster.
"We encourage clients to produce shorter,
more focused video content for mobile use
versus longer 'complete weather story' segments,
with larger graphics for the smaller
mobile device screens."
Then there's the issue of limited time.
"The constraint of time to complete a forecast
is removed with mobile," said Eggestad.
"The user only spends time watching
what he wants, like a detailed hour-by-hour
forecast of San Francisco to see if fog
will roll in and prevent watching the game
in the park. By providing content-rich and
navigation-sensitive displays on mobile,
advanced users will get additional value
from being given access to more data on
an interactive platform than through a
From a technical standpoint, weather
content and graphics must be sufficiently
flexible to enable them to be repurposed
for different media (broadcast, mobile,
etc.) with a few clicks of a mouse. Automation
can be built into content editors
that properly "sizes" graphics for the
broadcast and mobile platforms they are
targeted for.
"For all of these reasons, we need to
support a wide variety of browsers, mobile
devices, operating systems, and we need to
think about a fallback for some features so
we can support older devices," said Dempster.
To answer the challenges of weather
content channel diverisification, solutions
providers have responded with automation
that broadcasters can simply "plug
in" to their weather content preparation
cycles, without having to burden their IT
departments with major technical development
Eggestad explained how the automation
works: "A meteorologist prepares the
weather content for the broadcast, and
the information gets stored in a database.
From this database, an application we
provide pulls the content for broadcast
and can also redigitize it for display on
mobile devices. The process is entirely
automated. The database the application
works with can obtain a variety of weather
content. So, for instance, if you need
to pull the weather for Naples, Florida, you
can do that—and send it out to broadcast
and mobile devices. If, on the other hand,
you need weather content for Los Angeles,
you can also pull, digitize and deliver that
The key is the automated workflow that
can redigitize broadcast content to work
on mobile devices—and by doing so,
keep broadcasters' brand images consistent
across all delivery channels.
Mobile device use is exponentially
growing, which means the timing
couldn't be better for automated weather
content delivery technology. In the face
of this, broadcasters must respond with
engaging weather content and graphics,
while continuing to build on the on-air
credibility and brands they have already
"Bridging the generation/socio-economic
gap with respect to TV vs. online/
mobile audiences is going to be important
as more weather broadcasting revenue is
going to come from non-broadcast products,"
said Eggestad. "TV broadcast weather
is not going to disappear, either. That's why
broadcasters that find ways to monetize
both their Internet and 'non-Internet' audiences
will have an advantage."
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text: [Federal Register: May 30, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 104)] [Notices] [Page 32487-32488] From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:fr30my03-62] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Office of Surface Mining Fish and Wildlife Service Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement AGENCIES: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Department of the Army, DOD; Environmental Protection Agency; Office of Surface Mining and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior; and West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection. ACTION: Announcement of Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) availability and notice of public hearings. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The above agencies announce the availability of the DEIS on Mountaintop Mining/Valley Fills in Appalachia for public comment. The DEIS considers new or revised program guidance, policies, or regulations to minimize, to the maximum extent practicable, the adverse environmental effects of mountaintop mining/valley fill operations within the Appalachian study area in West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee. The DEIS is being mailed to known interested parties and can be viewed on the Internet at http://www.epa.gov/region3/mtntop/index.htm. The DEIS can also be viewed at local offices of the above agencies and at local libraries. Copies of the DEIS can be requested by calling the Environmental Protection Agency, Region 3, toll free at 1-800-228-8711. The public is invited to provide written comments on the DEIS during the extended 90-day comment period and oral comments during either of the 2 public hearings. The first hearing will be held at the Forum at the Hal Rogers Center, 101 Bulldog Lane, Hazard, KY 41701. The second hearing will be held at the Charleston Civic Center-Little Theater, 200 Civic Center Drive, Charleston, WV 25301. Each hearing will have two sessions: the first will be held from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. and the second will be held the same day from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. DATES: The public hearing in Hazard, KY will be held on July 22, 2003, and the public hearing in Charleston, WV will be held on July 24, 2003. Written comments on the DEIS must be received by August 29, 2003. ADDRESSES: Send written comments on the DEIS to John Forren, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (3EA30), 1650 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For further information on the DEIS, contact Katherine Trott, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, at (202) 761- 4617; John Forren, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, at (215) 814- 2705; Michael Robinson, Office of Surface Mining, at (412) 937-2882; Cindy Tibbott, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, at (814) 234-4090; or Russell Hunter, West Virginia [[Page 32488]] Department of Environmental Protection, at (304) 759-0510. John A. McElree, LTC, EN, Acting Executive Director, Directorate of Civil Works. Gregory Peck, Deputy Director, Wetlands Division, Office of Water, Headquarters, Environmental Protection Agency. Sarah E. Donnelly, Acting Assistant Director, Program Support, Office of Surface Mining. Marshall P. Jones, Deputy Director, Fish and Wildlife Service. [FR Doc. 03-13452 Filed 5-29-03; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3710-92-P


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Many mechanical engineering companies have begun to incorporate computer-aided engineering (CAE) programs into their existing processes, including 2D and 3D solid modeling computer-aided design (CAD), enabling faster and more exhaustive visualization of products. Other CAE programs commonly used by mechanical engineers include product lifecycle management (PLM), and analysis tools such as finite element analysis (FEA), computational fluid dynamics (CFD), and computer-aided manufacturing (CAM). Further, automation in the form of industrial robots allow businesses to save money on manufacturing costs, and ensure precision quality control. The median annual income of mechanical engineers in the US workforce was $80,580, highest when working for the government ($92,030), and lowest in education ($57,090). Beyond major requirements within the mechanical engineering department, you may consider University of Portland electrical engineering as an adjunct to your primary course of study.
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The Challenge of Asmodeus – Steal this Adventure (download)
It was three earthen years after Obad-Hai's death, before any proper link was known to the infernal hells. Asmodeus, in his scheming, offered up the archdevil Levistus to take the fall. While the gods bickered among themselves as to the proper course of actions, more powers were drawn in, while others fell to hidden blades. The Divine War raged, they entered all the planes, and the sides were never clear. When enough people were laid dead, Asmodeus' plan was finally clear. He had bound some of the power of the Far Realm and would reshape the universe in his image . . . by destroying it.
– From the Journal of General Wolfgang James
The Challenge of Asmodeus is a one-shot adventure for 4-6 characters of 30th level. Use it as a break from your regular campaign, an excuse to test an epic level build, or just a fun way to kill 3 to 5 hours with friends!
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One Response to "The Challenge of Asmodeus – Steal this Adventure (download)"
Longtime lurker, first time commenter.
My group just wrapped up our campaign at 21st level, retiring our characters. We didn't want to experience an epic campaign.
I can say, without a doubt, that our PCs will be coming out of retirement for one last call to duty…


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The police today prohibited mention of the Palestine White Paper at a mass meeting arranged to protest the new British policy. The order was issued just as speakers were about to address the rally and was accompanied by a threat to dissolve the meeting if it were violated. Former Deputy Samuel Singer thereupon announced, amid a dead silence, that Rumanian Zionists would find a way to present their views on the Palestine policy to the Rumanian and British Governments. Psalm 137 was then recited by a weeping audience.


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