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For the sake of my gentle, well-beloved wife.

But if he should not flee? If he will not or cannot?

Then, in God's name, I may not spare him; then must my kingly word be fulfilled. Go!

I go, and shall do my utmost. Heaven grant I may succeed.

[Goes out by the right.

You, Dagfinn, go with trusty men down to the King's ship; you shall conduct the Queen and her child up to Elgesæter convent.

My lord, think you she will be safe there?

Nowhere safer. The Vargbælgs have shut themselves up in the churches, and she has besought to be sent thither; her mother is at Elgesæter.

Ay, ay, that I know.

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