GANDALF.
Girl, you’ve awakened this doubt in me
In my mind you’ve called the stormy sea
My blood runs hot, just like Hela’s flame
Nothing softens my pain, it will stay the same.

BLANKA.
Oh Ganddalf! Beware! Now I finally start
To feel how dear you have grown to this heart.

Transl. by Bent Kvalvik.

On an Italian island the viking Roderik is pondering his past. His foster daughter Blanka survived a bloody Viking raid of the island, and she has taken care of the old man and made him a Christian. Roderik has told her stories of the North which made her long to go there. Then the island is invaded by Norse Vikings. Young Gandalf is on a mission of revenge; his father was killed in battle here and lies buried in the barrow. Gandalf and Blanka fall in love, but when they become aware of each other's situation, the relationship seems to be impossible. He comes from a people that has killed her real father, and she is the foster child of Roderik, who claims he cut down Gandalf's father. Gandalf would rather die than kill his beloved's foster father, but finally Roderik confesses that he in fact is Rørek, Gandalf's father. He has erased his identity in order to leave his heathen past behind. This leaves Gandalf and Blanka free to have each other, and filled with happiness they embark to a new life in the North.