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    Olaf Liljekrans by Henrik Ibsen - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)
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    Olaf Liljekrans by Henrik Ibsen - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)
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    Henrik Ibsen

    Born in 1828, Henrik Ibsen was a Norwegian playwright and poet, often associated with the early Modernist movement in theatre. Determined to become a playwright from a young age, Ibsen began writing while working as an apprentice pharmacist to help support his family. Though his early plays were largely unsuccessful, Ibsen was able to take employment at a theatre where he worked as a writer, director, and producer. Ibsen’s first success came with Brand and Peter Gynt, and with later plays like A Doll’s House, Ghosts, and The Master Builder he became one of the most performed playwrights in the world, second only to William Shakespeare. Ibsen died in his home in Norway in 1906 at the age of 78.

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      Olaf Liljekrans by Henrik Ibsen - Delphi Classics (Illustrated) - Henrik Ibsen

      The Complete Works of

      HENRIK IBSEN

      VOLUME 5 OF 29

      Olaf Liljekrans

      Parts Edition

      By Delphi Classics, 2013

      Version 1

      COPYRIGHT

      ‘Olaf Liljekrans’

      Henrik Ibsen: Parts Edition (in 29 parts)

      First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Delphi Classics.

      © Delphi Classics, 2017.

      All rights reserved.  No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form other than that in which it is published.

      ISBN: 978 1 78877 575 5

      Delphi Classics

      is an imprint of

      Delphi Publishing Ltd

      Hastings, East Sussex

      United Kingdom

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      www.delphiclassics.com

      Henrik Ibsen: Parts Edition

      This eBook is Part 5 of the Delphi Classics edition of Henrik Ibsen in 29 Parts. It features the unabridged text of Olaf Liljekrans from the bestselling edition of the author’s Complete Works. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. Our Parts Editions feature original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of Henrik Ibsen, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

      Visit here to buy the entire Parts Edition of Henrik Ibsen or the Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen in a single eBook.

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      HENRIK IBSEN

      IN 29 VOLUMES

      Parts Edition Contents

      The Plays

      1, Catiline

      2, The Burial Mound

      3, Lady Inger of Oestraat

      4, The Feast at Solhaug

      5, Olaf Liljekrans

      6, The Vikings at Helgeland

      7, Love’s Comedy

      8, The Pretenders

      9, Brand

      10, Peer Gynt

      11, The League of Youth

      12, Emperor and Galilean

      13, Pillars of Society

      14, A Doll’s House

      15, Ghosts

      16, An Enemy of the People

      17, The Wild Duck

      18, Rosmersholm

      19, The Lady from the Sea

      20, Hedda Gabler

      21, The Master Builder

      22, Little Eyolf

      23, John Gabriel Borkman

      24, When We Dead Awaken

      The Poems

      25, The Poetry

      The Norwegian Texts (De norske tekster)

      26, The Original Texts

      The Non-Fiction

      27, Speeches and New Letters

      The Criticism

      28, The Criticism

      The Biography

      29, The Life of Henrik Ibsen by Edmund Gosse

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      Olaf Liljekrans

      Translated by Anders Orbeck

      In 1856, Ibsen resumed work on a fragment he had started six years ago, The Grouse of Justedal. After the success of The Feast at Solhoug, he was tempted to write another play in the style of the folk ballads. The Grouse of Justedal had been inspired by a story in Andreas Faye’s collection Norwegian Legends about a little girl on the farm Birkehaug in Justedalen. She was the only survivor in the valley of the Black Death, and when, after a long time, people came from the neighbouring parish and discovered her, she had been named The Grouse of Justedalen, due to her timidity. Ibsen included this motif in Olaf Liljekrans, though in the end not a single line from The Grouse of Justedal was to make its way into Olaf Liljekrans.

      The play was handed in at Det norske Theater in Bergen at the beginning of October 1856, and was immediately accepted for staging and first performed on January 2nd 1857. Ibsen directed the production himself. Due to the success of The Feast at Solhoug, the previous year there were great expectations, with a full house, but the play was not a success with either audiences or the critics, being only performed twice.

      A design for the costume of Olaf Liljekrans in the first performance

      CONTENTS

      DRAMATIS PERSONÆ

      FIRST ACT

      SCENE I

      SCENE II

      SCENE III

      SCENE IV

      SCENE V

      SCENE VI

      SCENE VII

      SCENE VIII

      SCENE IX

      SCENE X

      SCENE XI

      SCENE XII

      SCENE XIII

      SCENE XIV

      SECOND ACT

      SCENE I

      SCENE II

      SCENE III

      SCENE IV

      SCENE V

      SCENE VI

      SCENE VII

      SCENE VIII

      SCENE IX

      SCENE X

      SCENE XI

      THIRD ACT

      SCENE I

      SCENE II

      SCENE III

      SCENE IV

      SCENE V

      SCENE VI

      SCENE VII

      SCENE VIII

      SCENE IX

      SCENE X

      DRAMATIS PERSONÆ

      LADY KIRSTEN LILJEKRANS.

      OLAF LILJEKRANS Her son.

      ARNE OF GULDVIK.

      INGEBORG His daughter.

      HEMMING His page.

      THORGJERD An old fiddler.

      ALFHILD.

      Wedding GUESTS.

      RELATIVES of Arne of Guldvik.

      MAIDS and SERVANTS of Lady Kirsten.

      SETTING

      The action takes place in the middle ages, in a mountain, district.

      FIRST ACT

      [A thickly wooded hillside which leads up to higher mountain regions; in a deep ravine a swift river runs from the background out to the right; over the river lie some old logs and other remnants of a dilapidated bridge. Huge rocks lie scattered in the foreground; far away can be seen the summits of snow-capped mountain peaks. Evening twilight rests over the landscape; later on the moon appears.]

      SCENE I

      [THORGJERD stands on a rocky projection near the river and listens to the various choruses which are heard off the stage.]

      CHORUS OF LADY KIRSTEN’S RETINUE. [Deep in the wood to the

      right.]

      With ringing of bells we hurry along,

      We wander in field and in dell;

      O Christian, come, give heed to our song,

      Awake from your magic spell.

      RELATIVES OF ARNE OF GULDVIK. [Far away to the right.]

      Now hasten we all

      To the wedding hall;

      The foal runneth light and gay!

      The hoofs resound

      On the grassy ground

      As the merry swains gallop away!

      LADY KIRSTEN’S RETINUE. [A little nearer than before.]

      We conjure you forth from mountain and hill,

      From the places which hold you bound.

      Awake to our call, come, free your will

      From elves that hover around!

      [THORGJERD disappears in the ravine where the river runs; after a rapid interplay the choruses are heard much nearer.]

      ARNE’S RELATIVES. Our way we shorten with jest and with song,

      And all of the bridal night.

      LADY KIRSTEN’S RETINUE. With tears we wander the whole day long,

      We search to the left and the right.

      ARNE’S RELATIVES. [In close proximity, yet still outside the scene.] To wedding and banquet, to song and dance, Both servants and hand-maidens throng.

      LADY KIRSTEN’S RETINUE. [Nearer than before.]

      Olaf Liljekrans! Olaf Liljekrans!

      Why sleep you so deep and so long?

      SCENE II

      [ARNE of Guldvik appears with his relatives, men and women, minstrels, etc., in the background to the right on the other side of the river; they are all in festive attire. Shortly afterwards HEMMING from the same side.]

      ONE OF THE RETINUE. See, here goes the way.

      ANOTHER. No, here!

      A THIRD. Not at all, it must be here.

      ARNE OF GULDVIK. Well, well, are we now astray again!

      ARNE OF GULDVIK. [Calls.] Hemming! Where is Hemming?

      HEMMING. [Enters.] Here!

      ARNE. Have I not told you to keep yourself close so as to be of some service to me?

      HEMMING. It was Mistress Ingeborg — she wanted, — and so —

      ARNE. [Annoyed.] Mistress Ingeborg! Mistress Ingeborg! Are you Mistress Ingeborg’s maid? You are my page; it is me you shall serve. Do you not get your keep and wage therefor? Come, tell us where the way goes, — we are stuck.

      HEMMING. [Uncertain.] The way? Well now, I am little acquainted up here, but —

      ARNE. I might have known it, — that is always the service you give me! Well, we shall have to spend the night in the wilderness, as sure as I am Arne of Guldvik.

      HEMMING. [Who has in the meantime spied the remnants of the bridge.] Aha, no need of that; here we can get across.

      ARNE. Why didn’t you tell us so in the first place?

      [All cross the river and come forward on the stage.]

      ARNE. [Looks about.] Yes, now I have my bearings again. The river there is the boundary between Lady Kirsten’s dominions and mine.

      ARNE. [Points to the left.] Down there lies her estate; in another hour or two we can sit cozily in the bridal house, but then we must hurry along.

      ARNE. [Calls.] Ingeborg! — Hemming! Now where’s Ingeborg?

      HEMMING. In the rear, up on the hillside.

      HEMMING. [Points to the right.] She is playing with her bridesmaids; they gather green twigs from the cherry trees and run about with joy and laughter.

      ARNE.

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