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Dagfinn.
At last you can set about your king's-work with free hands. In there are those you <g>love</g>; in Nidaros they are ringing in peace in the <g>land</g>; and yonder he lies who was your direst foe.
Håkon.
All men misjudged him, reading not his secret.
Dagfinn.
His secret?
Håkon.
[Seizes him by the arm, and says softly.] Skule Bårdsson was God's step-child on earth; that was the secret.
[The song of the women is heard more
loudly from the chapel; all the bells are
still ringing in Nidaros.
THE END.
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