noon
`` Can the stars grant my wish ? '' `` They can : let us meet to-morrow . '' Thus saying , Morven passed into the forest . The next day , at noon , they met again . `` I have consulted the gods of night , and they have given me the power that I prayed for , but on one condition . '' `` Name it . '' `` That thou sacrifice thy sister on their altars ; thou must build up a heap of stones , and take thy sister into the wood , and lay her on the pile , and plunge thy sword into her heart ; so only shalt thou reign . ''