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Olaf Liljekrans
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ARNE
(…) Bursting out). As sure as I live, there is something you are hiding from me.

LADY KIRSTEN.
Well and good, lord Arne. (…) There can be no wedding tomorrow as we had agreed.


ARNE.
No wedding?

LADY KIRSTEN.
(…) One there is lacking.

ARNE
Olaf!

LADY KIRSTEN.
Yes, he, my son – this night he fled from his home and his bride.

Transl. by Anders Ohrbeck.

Two families that have been bitter enemies are to be reconciled through the wedding of Olaf Liljekrans and Ingeborg of Guldvik. But Olaf is in love with Alfhild, whom he met in the mountains, and Ingeborg is secretly in love with her father's servant Hemming. During the night before the wedding Olaf disappears into the mountains. When he and Alfhild are caught together, his mother, Lady Kirsten, lays a cunning plan. Alfhild is invited to the wedding believing that she will be married to Olaf, and Hemming is fooled by Lady Kirsten into thinking that she will help him get his Ingeborg. In reality the lady is planning to have Alfhild and Hemming marry each other at the same time as Olaf and Ingeborg. The lovers see through her deception and escape to the mountains. Alfhild is accused of witchcraft, and the peasants want to stone her, but Olaf enters declaring he wants Alfhild and no one else. At the same time Alfhild's father declares that the one who finds Ingeborg will get to marry her. Soon after Ingeborg shows up accompanied by Hemming, and so both loving couples are united in the end.

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