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Peter.
Together with you, my noble father! We will go together!
King Skule.
[Drawing the youth close up to himself.] Ay, together, we two alone!
Ingeborg.
[To herself.] To love, to sacrifice all and be forgotten, that is my saga.[1]
[Goes quietly out by the back.
King Skule.
Now shall a great king's-work be done in Norway! Listen, Peter, my son! We will awaken the whole people, and gather it into one; the man of Viken and the Trönder, the Halogalander and the Agdeman, the Uplander and the Sogndaleman, all shall be <g>one</g> great family! Then shall you see how the land will come to flourish!
Peter.
What a great and dizzy thought
King Skule.
Do you grasp it?
Peter.
Yes—yes!—Clearly
!King Skule.
And have you faith in it?
- ↑ As to the earlier text of this scene, see Brandes' Ibsen and Björnson (Heinemann, 1899), p. 29.