Shakespeare lines 80 through 115

In the beginning, Marcellus is wondering why guarding the land has become so strict and why cannons and other implements of war are made in foreign places. He also wonders why the shipbuilders are working so hard that they don’t even have Sundays off. Horatio replies to Marcellus saying that the king that they just saw as a ghost was a rival with the king Fortinbras of Norway who challenged him to a battle. The battle was won only because of the courageous hero Hamlet. The lands that Fortinbras used to own now belonged to Hamlet. Fortinbras’ son hired people to fight back and recover the land that his father had lost. Those were the reasons, according to Haratio, as to why the guards were so strictly posted recently. Barnardo then chimes in confirming what Horatio said seemed right and that is also explained why the king was haunting them when he did.