Peer Gynt - Characters

Characters

  • Åse, a peasant’s widow
  • Peer Gynt, her son
  • Two old women with corn–sacks
  • Aslak, a blacksmith
  • Wedding guests
  • A master cook
  • A fiddler
  • A man and a wife, newcomers to the district
  • Solveig and little Helga, their daughters
  • The farmer at Hægstad
  • Ingrid, his daughter
  • The bridegroom and his parents
  • Three alpine dairymaids
  • A green-clad woman, a troll princess
  • The Old Man of the Mountains, a troll king (Also known as The Mountain King)
  • Multiple troll-courtiers, troll-maidens and troll-urchins
  • A couple of witches
  • Brownies, nixies, gnomes, etc.
  • An ugly brat
  • The Bøyg, a voice in the darkness
  • Kari, a cottar’s wife
  • Master Cotton.
  • Monsieur Ballon
  • Herr von Eberkopf
  • Herr Trumpeterstrale
  • Gentlemen on their travels
  • A thief
  • A receiver
  • Anitra, daughter of a Bedouin chief
  • Arabs
  • Female slaves
  • Dancing girls
  • The Memnon statue
  • The Sphinx at Giza
  • Dr. Begriffenfeldt, director of the madhouse at Cairo
  • Huhu, a language–reformer from the coast of Malabar
  • Hussein, an eastern Minister
  • A fellow with a royal mother
  • Several madmen and their keepers
  • A Norwegian skipper
  • His crew
  • A strange passenger
  • A pastor/The Devil (Peer Gynt think he is a pastor)
  • A funeral party
  • A parish-officer
  • A button-molder
  • A lean person

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