[1]. One of Holberg’s most famous comedies.
[2]. See The Lady from the Sea.
[3]. Brandes: Ibsen and Björnson, p. 35. London, Heinemann, 1899. Except in regard to the fourth act, Dr. Brandes has, in the introduction to Peer Gynt in the German collected edition, recanted his early condemnation of the poem.
[4]. The last words are “deus caritatis.”
[5]. Norske Huldre-Eventyr og Folkesagn, Christiania, 1848, p. 47. See also Copenhagen edition, 1896, p. 163.
[6]. Norske Folke-og Huldre-Eventyr, Copenhagen, 1896, p. 48.
[7]. Ibid., p. 129.
[8]. Ibid., p. 259.
[9]. Not included in the Copenhagen edition. See edition, Christiania, 1866, p. 115. See also Sir George Webbe Dasent’s Popular Tales from the Norse, Edinburgh, 1859; new ed. 1903, p. 396. More or less representative selections from the storehouse of Asbjörnsen and Moe may also be found in Tales from the Fjeld, by G. W. Dasent, London, 1874, and in Round the Yule Log, by H. L. Brækstad, London 1881.
[10]. Copenhagen ed. 1896, p. 148.