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. Footnote 10: Copenhagen ed. 1896, p. 148. Footnote 11: In this story, however, he probably found the suggestion of the “cross-roads” which figure so largely in the fifth act. In Asbjörnsen, they are explicitly stated to be the point where the ways to Heaven and Hell diverge. Footnote 12: Further gleanings of legendary lore concerning Peer Gynt may be found in the Norwegian periodical _Syn og Segn_, 1903, pp. 119-130. The writer, Per Aasmundstad, is of opinion that Peer Gynt’s real name was Peer Haagaa (the owner of Haagaa farm) and that Gynt was either a name given him by the huldra-folk, or else a local nickname for humorists of his kind. According to this authority, he probably lived as far back as the seventeenth century. Per Aasmundstad’s article is written in the local dialect, with such ruthless phonetic accuracy that I read it with difficulty; but he does not seem to have discovered anything that has a definite bearing on Ibsen’s work. From the wording of Ibsen’s letters to Hegel, however (p. viii), it would seem that he had some knowledge of the Gynt legend over and above what was to be found in Asbjörnsen. (For access to _Syn og Segn_, and for other obliging assistance, I am indebted to Herr Halvdan Koht, the author of the excellent biographical introduction to Ibsen’s Letters.) Footnote 13: It is pretty clear that the poet designed Åse’s death as a deliberate contrast to the death of Brand’s mother. Footnote 14: In all these remarks I have in mind, of course, the scenes in their original form. The reader will easily understand the loss which they inevitably suffer in being deprived of the crowning grace of richly-elaborated rhyme. Footnote 15: London: Sonnenschein, 1892. Footnote 16: _Henrik Ibsen et le Théâtre Contemporain._ Paris, 1892. Footnote 17: