Then all is well; then am I surely saved! Listen: you shall cast off the cowl; the Archbishop shall loose you from your vows; the King’s son shall wield the sword, shall go forward unwavering to might and honour.
Peter.
Together with you, my noble father! We will go together!
King Skule.
[Drawing the youth close up to himself.] Ay, together, we two alone!
Ingeborg.
[To herself.] To love, to sacrifice all and be forgotten, that is my saga.[[41]]
[Goes quietly out by the back.
King Skule.
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!