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'Tis said Sigurd Ribbung gave you still more to do in Vermeland.

[Flaring up.] Ay, and who was it that let Sigurd Ribbung slip through their fingers?

Sigurd Ribbung fled from us at Nidaros, that all men know.

But no man knows that you did aught to hinder him.

[To the, who is pondering on a move.] Hear you, Earl? It was you who let Sigurd Ribbung escape.

[Makes a move.] That is an old story.

Have you not heard, then, of the Icelander Andres Torsteinsson, Sigurd Ribbung's friend

Ay; when Sigurd had escaped, you hanged the Icelander—that I know.

[Makes a move and says laughingly to the ] I take the pawn, Sir Earl. *