CHARACTERS.
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Åse,[20] a peasant’s widow.
Peer Gynt,[21] 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.)
Footnotes:
3PEER GYNT.