’Tis enough that you know it.

Håkon.

But it was to death that I doomed him!

Margrete.

[Kneels before the King, and kisses his hand.] My husband and noble lord, your doom is just!

ACT FIFTH.

A room in the palace at Nidaros. The entrance door is on the right; in front, on the same side, a window; to the left a smaller door. It is after night-fall. Paul Flida, Bård Bratte, and several of King Skule’s principal followers are standing at the window and looking upward.

A Man-at-Arms.

How red it glows!

A Second.