Footnote 80: So in original. Footnote 81: So in original. Footnote 82: Mr. Cotton seems to have confounded Olympus with Parnassus. Footnote 83: So in original. Footnote 84: An allusion to the attitude of Sweden during the Danish War of 1863-64, with special reference to the diplomatic notes of the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Grev Manderström. He is also aimed at in the character of Hussein in the last scene of this act. See Introduction. Footnote 85: So in original. Footnote 86: This is not to be taken as a burlesque instance of the poet’s supposed preoccupation with questions of heredity, but simply as an allusion to the fact that, in the East, thieving and receiving are regular and hereditary professions. Footnote 87: This proposal was seriously mooted about ten years after the appearance of _Peer Gynt_. Footnote 88: Or “ego.” Footnote 89: In original, “Pundsterling og shilling.” Footnote 90: In the original, “De har snydt——hm; jeg mener syndet, mit barn!” Footnote 91: In the previous edition we restored the exact wording of Goethe’s line, “zieht uns hinan.” We ought to have understood that the point of the speech lay in the misquotation. Footnote 92: Literally, “on the basis of.” Footnote 93: So in original. Footnote 94: Literally, “you’re looed” or “euchred.” Footnote 95: Literally, “behave as though sober and wakeful.” Footnote 96: Literally, “_spirituel_.” Footnote 97: _Sidst_—literally, “when last we met.” Footnote 98: “Gå udenom,” the phrase used by the Boyg, Act ii. sc. 7. Footnote 99: So in original. Footnote 100: So in original. Footnote 101: This is understood to refer to the authors of the Greek version of the Old Testament, known as the Septuagint. We are unable to account for the hundred and sixty recruits to their company. Footnote 102: See Introduction. Footnote 103: Literally, “generation.” Footnote 104: Literally, “uninterpreted.” Footnote 105: An allusion to the long period of stagnation in the history of Norway under the Danish rule—say, from 1400 to 1800. Footnote 106: See note, p. 140. Footnote 107: The pounce-box (for strewing “pounce” or sand on undried ink) had not yet been quite superseded by blotting-paper. Footnote 108: “En påholden pen.” “Underskrive med påholden pen”—to sign by touching a pen which is guided by another. ----- ACT FIFTH. SCENE FIRST. _On board a ship on the North Sea, off the Norwegian coast. Sunset. Stormy weather._