Note 6 — CONTENTS

On page 277 will be found a reference to Brandes’s Ibsen and Björnson; but I may as well give here the substance of the passage. In the original form of the play, three speeches of Ingeborg’s, in her scene with Skule, ran as follows: “It is man’s right to forget,” “It is woman’s happiness to remember,” and “To have to sacrifice all and be forgotten, that is woman’s saga.” It was only on Brandes’s remonstrance that Ibsen substituted the present form of these speeches, in which they became, not the generalised expression of an ideal, but merely utterances of Ingeborg’s individual character.