His slashing sword blows deep inside Had killed the witch-they heard her groan- As Spidala would too have died, Had not Bearslayer mercy shown. In rapturous voice these words she cried: "Success is yours, and Heaven's Sons, With Perkons too, stand at your side, Against all fiends and evil ones." "But further deeds will be the cost, Once to our Fatherland returned.- While on far oceans you were tossed, Our fathers' halls the Strangers burned! Make haste, return home to our land, On these oppressors vengeance wreak! How happy with you I would stand, Like chaste Laimdota virtue seek." "I long salvation sure to win. But who the Devil's grip can shake, Escape a pact conceived in sin, An oath in blood, once signed, can break?" Spidala is freed from her pact with the Devil Now Spidala concealed her face, And bitter tears wept without end. Bearslayer could not doubt the case: She wished her evil ways to mend. From nowhere came a sudden thought: The little package which, that night, From out the Devil's Pit he brought, To keep in mind the evil sight. He bade some men the package bring; To Spidala he gave it then. The moment that she saw the thing, With heartfelt joy she cried again, In gratitude fell to her knee. Before Bearslayer's feet she lay: "Your grateful servant I will be, Bearslayer, now and every day!" "This package is the pact I signed, When evil deeds to do I swore. With this I now can freedom find, And break the Devil's grip once more. For now I can dissolve the pact, Can do good deeds, while yet alive, And seek as much for good to act, As once I would for evil strive!" The magic staff forth now she brought, With which the crone the sailors woke, When human flesh her sons had sought, Went to the beach to save the folk.- She entered every ship and boat, That lay pinned fast upon the shore, And with the staff each sleeper smote, And all rose up, alive once more. To them it seemed a single night That they had slept, and nothing more, And so their sprightly step was light, That took them round the island's shore. Bearslayer stood and watched them long, Then suddenly surprise he knew, For with Koknesis in the throng There stood Laimdota clear in view! SCENE 3: The return to the Fatherland Bearslayer, Koknesis and Laimdota are reunited Escaped from in the convent's bound Laimdota travelled with her knight Through journeys long a seaport found, And there a ship to give them flight.- To foreign ports the sailors sought To bring their goods and make their trade, And on the Daugava's bank they thought To see the castle newly made. Of this Laimdota nothing knew, Nor knew Koknesis, of this fort, And of their loved ones nothing too, Since far away they had been brought. And thus it was their fervent will To seek out soon the Fatherland.- Though Destiny's wish all would fulfil, The course proved longer than they planned!