Håkon.
For the sake of my gentle, well-beloved wife.
Gregorius Jonsson.
But if he should <g>not</g> flee? If he will not or cannot?
Håkon.
Then, in God's name, I may not spare him; then must my kingly word be fulfilled. Go!
Gregorius Jonsson
I go, and shall do my utmost. Heaven grant I may succeed.
[Goes out by the right.
Håkon.
You, Dagfinn, go with trusty men down to the King's ship; you shall conduct the Queen and her child up to Elgesæter[1] convent.
Dagfinn.
My lord, think you she will be safe there?
Håkon.
Nowhere safer. The Vargbælgs have shut themselves up in the churches, and she has besought to be sent thither; her mother is at Elgesæter.
Dagfinn.
Ay, ay, that I know.
Håkon.
Greet the Queen most lovingly from me; and greet Lady Ragnhild also. You may tell them that so soon as the Vargbælgs shall have made
- ↑ Elgesæter—Elk-châlet.
