summer midnight
Now women and thralls came in and drew out the wounded and those who still breathed from among the dead , taking them to the temple . They bore away the body of Ospakar also , but they left the rest . All night long Gudruda sat in the bride 's seat . There she sat in the silver summer midnight , looking on the slain who were strewn about the great hall . All night she sat alone in the bride 's seat thinking -- ever thinking . How , then , would it end ? There her brother Björn lay a-cold -- Björn the justly slain of Brighteyes ; yet how could she wed the man who slew her brother ?