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 that the last day is come. Ay, by the Almighty, this shall be ended at one stroke!

What are your commands?

All the bridges shall be broken down

Go, and let all the bridges be broken.

[''One of the Men-at-arms goes out to the right.''

Gather all our men upon the foreshore; not one Birchleg shall set foot in Nidaros.

Well spoken, King.

When the shrine is borne forth, let the horn sound to the folkmote. The host and the towns-*folk shall be called together.

[To one of the men.] Go forth and bid the hornblower wind his horn in all the streets.

[The man goes.

[Addresses the people from the window.] Hold fast to me, all my sorrowing people. There shall come peace and light over the land once more, as in Håkon's first glad days, when the fields yielded two harvests every summer. Hold fast