ENGELBRECHT. [After thinking hard] I'd like to shake hands!
The KING holds out his hand.
ENGELBRECHT. [Looking at the King's hand] My, what a fist! Hard as nails, but clean! Yes, and a devil of a fellow you are, all in all!—I must say I was rather scared when I came here!
KING. Are all the rest of them as drunk as you are?
ENGELBRECHT. About the same! But they can toot the horns for all that. [He goes to the balustrade, waves his hand and utters the yell used by the Dalecarlians in calling their cows] Poo-ala! Poo-ala! Poo Oy-ala! Oy-ala! Oy!
The blowing of horns and beating of drums is heard from the outside.
The KING goes to the balustrade and waxes his hand.
The MOTHER-IN-LAW appears in court dress.
The QUEEN enters and goes to the KING, who folds her in his arms.
PRINCE JOHAN enters and goes to the balustrade.
KING. [With raised arms] You have punished me, O Lord, and I thank thee!
Curtain
[1]Larv Heath was the place where the dissatisfied lords of West Gothia summoned the peasants to meet them in 1529, when they tried to raise the province against the King. Tuna Plain, to which Mons Nilsson and his friends refer a number of times in the first act, was the place where Gustav settled his first score with the obstreperous Dalecarlians.