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Together with you, my noble father! We will go together!

[Drawing the youth close up to himself.] Ay, together, we two alone!

[To herself.] To love, to sacrifice all and be forgotten, that is my saga.

[Goes quietly out by the back.

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 one great family! Then shall you see how the land will come to flourish!

What a great and dizzy thought

Do you grasp it?

Yes—yes!—Clearly!

And have you faith in it?