I have given the figure in the first 4 bars the name "Ha," which is Icelandic for "what?"  

A dance for Elizabeth and John of the Stanford Class, California. Elizabeth suggested the title from the *Njal's Saga*, when the hero Gunnar says, "Never have the slopes of Hlidarendi seemed so fair to me. I shall stay and not go into exile, come what may." Hlidarendi is pronounced Hleether-endee.