Word: jarl
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Dates: during 1901-1901
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...second act of the play is laid on the North American coast in the early fall of the year 1001. The Indians see the Viking ship approaching. It draws near, and Leif, who with Tyrker, Sigurd and a crew of Vikings, has sailed from the village of Magnus Jarl in Norway to seek America, comes to the shore. At the invitation of Po-ko hokit, Leif and Tyrker go to see the Indian village...
...Toburn, a Chicago wheat king, becomes interested and wishes to obtain Leif as a husband for his niece. Leif insists that he is engaged to the Norwegian Sylvia, daughter of Magnus Jarl, but he is told that she has been dead nearly nine hundred years. The Duke of Dedbroke, who wishes to wed Sylvia Dukehunter, causes a great deal of trouble, but finally, with the aid of Arnstormer, the Duke is thwarted and the young lady is betrothed to Leif...
...staged, and the parts assigned as follows: Leif Ericsson, the Viking, T. Stensland 2L. Tyrker, his confidant, J. L. Kimbrough '02. Bjarne, P. L. Fish '01. Sigurd, F. M. Sawtell '02. Olaf, keeper of the "Outside" Inn, J. M. Ross '01. Sweyn, a waiter, J. C. Miller '01. Magnus Jarl, the Norse Earl, M. J. Tobey '01. Sylvia, his daughter, J. S. Chipman '01. Minna, H. F. Hurlbut '01. Brenda, wife of Tyrker, W. H. Taylor '01. Helga, R. F. Jackson '03. Ingrid, A. W. Denison '03. Walting-maids to Sylvia. Vikings, fishermen, peasants...
...scene of the first act is a village on the Hardanger Fjord, Norway, at Yule-tide in the year 1000, while the people of the village are holding a Yule-tide festival. By a prevailing statute, Magnus Jarl, the head of the village, cannot retain his jarldom unless he finds a husband for his only daughter Sylvia, before the spring. Sigurd, a villainous youth, aspires to her hand, but when, urged by Olaf, he presses his suit, he is scorned by her. Sigurd, then makes advances to Sylvia's father, the Jarl, but is again repulsed. At this juncture...
Leif asks aid of Minna, the prophetess, that he may gain the Jarl's consent to his suit. Accordingly Minna tells Magnus that his daughter must marry Leif. Magnus does not dare to thwart the decree of the prophetness and accepts Leif as Sylvia's lover. The Jarl then buys Bjarne's ship and the act closes as Leif sets sail across the Atlantic. Sigurd goes with him, hoping that he can cause the crew to mutiny, kill Leif, and return to win Sylvia...