The Feast at Solhoug

CHARACTERS

  BENGT GAUTESON, Master of Solhoug.
  MARGIT, his wife.
  SIGNE, her sister.
  GUDMUND ALFSON, their kinsman.
  KNUT GESLING, the King’s sheriff.
  ERIK OF HEGGE, his friend.
  A HOUSE-CARL.
  ANOTHER HOUSE-CARL.
  THE KING’S ENVOY.
  AN OLD MAN.
  A MAIDEN.
  GUESTS, both MEN and LADIES.
  MEN of KNUT GESLING’S TRAIN.
  SERVING-MEN and MAIDENS at SOLHOUG.

The action passes at Solhoug in the Fourteenth Century.

PRONUNCIATION OF NAMES: Gudmund=Goodmund. The g in “Margit” and in “Gesling” is hard, as in “go,” or in “Gesling,” it may be pronounced as y—”Yesling.” The first o in Solhoug ought to have the sound of a very long “oo.”

Transcriber’s notes:

—Signe and Hegge have umlauts above the e’s, the
  ultimate e only in Hegge.
—Passages that are in lyric form are not indented
  and have the directorial comments to the right of
  the character’s name.