Yes, and then would come the foe and root up that tree and burn it to give them warmth and to celebrate their triumph.

So I think, Olaf, it will be with me before all is done.

Even my son hates me, Olaf, my only child for whose true welfare I strive night and day." "I have heard as much, Augusta," I said.
"You have heard, like all the world.

But what else of ill have you heard of me, Olaf?
Speak out, man; I'm here to learn the truth." "I have heard that you are very ambitious, Augusta, and that you hate your son as much as he hates you, because he is a rival to your power.
It is rumoured that you would be glad if he were dead and you left to reign alone." "Then a lie is rumoured, Olaf.

Yet it is true that I am ambitious, who see far and would build this tottering empire up afresh.