Characters

ÅSE, a peasant’s widow.
PEER GYNT, her son.
TWO OLD WOMEN with corn-sacks. ASLAK, a smith.
WEDDING GUESTS. A KITCHEN-MASTER, A FIDDLER, ETC.
A MAN AND WIFE, newcomers to the district.
SOLVEIG and LITTLE HELGA, their daughters.
THE FARMER AT HEGSTAD.
INGRID, his daughter.
THE BRIDEGROOM and HIS PARENTS.
THREE SÆTER-GIRLS. A GREEN-CLAD WOMAN.
THE OLD MAN OF THE DOVRË.
A TROLL-COURTIER. SEVERAL OTHERS. TROLL-MAIDENS and
TROLL-URCHINS. A COUPLE OF WITCHES. BROWNIES, NIXIES,
GNOMES, ETC.
AN UGLY BRAT. A VOICE IN THE DARKNESS. BIRD-CRIES.
KARI, a cottar’s wife.
Master COTTON, Monsieur BALLON, Herren VON EBERKOPF
and TRUMPETERSTRÅLE, gentlemen on their travels. A
THIEF and A RECEIVER.
ANITRA, daughter of a Bedouin chief.
ARABS, FEMALE SLAVES, DANCING-GIRLS, ETC.
THE MEMNON-STATUE (singing). THE SPHINX AT GIZEH
(muta persona).
PROFESSOR BEGRIFFENFELDT, Dr. phil., director of the
madhouse at Cairo.
HUHU, a language-reformer from the coast of Malabar.
HUSSEIN, an eastern Minister. A FELLAH, with a
royal mummy.
SEVERAL MADMEN, with their KEEPERS.
A NORWEGIAN SKIPPER and HIS CREW. A STRANGE PASSENGER.
A PASTOR. A FUNERAL-PARTY. A PARISH-OFFICER. A
BUTTON-MOULDER. A LEAN PERSON.
(The action, which opens in the beginning of the present [that
is the nineteenth] century, and ends towards our own days
[1867], takes place partly in Gudbrandsdale, and on the
mountains around it, partly on the coast of Morocco, in the
desert of Sahara, in a madhouse at Cairo, at sea, etc.)