A Woman.
[Appears at a house door on the right.] Great God of mercy, what is astir?
A Townsman.
[Who has come out, half dressed, from a house on the other side of the street.] The Birchlegs are in the town! Now will Skule have his reward for all his misdeeds.
One of Skule’s Men.
[Enters with some others, bearing their cloaks and weapons on their arms, from a side street on the left.] Where are the Birchlegs?
Another of Skule’s Men.
[Coming from a house on the right.] I know not!
The First.
Hist! Listen!—They must be down at the Geite-bridge!