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she came – in the form of a mermaid, raising
herself aloft on the water: she nodded and called
to him, and the unfortunate Duke sprang out
of the window down to her. We gazed out of
this window, and below it we saw the deep moat
in which he sank.
We enter the yeoman’s hall, and the council
hall, where, in the recesses of the windows,
on each side, are painted yeomen in strange
dresses, half Dalecarlians and half Roman
warriors.
In this once rich saloon, Svanta Steenson
Sture knelt to Sweden’s Queen, Catherine
Lejonhufved: she was Svanta Sture’s love,
before Gustavus Vasa’s will made her his Queen.
The lovers met here: the walls are silent as to
what they said, when the door was opened and
the King entered, and saw the kneeling Sture,
and asked what it meant. Margaret answered
craftily and hastily: "He demands my sister
Martha’s hand in marriage!" and the King
gave Svanta Sture the bride the Queen had
asked for him.
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