Ibsen's+Norway


 * Pst your findings about Ibsen's Norway here. These can be images (photos or art), audio clips, literary samples (translated poems or fragments of prose), or anything else that you believe illustrates the setting of //Hedda Gabler//. **

Include your name and a short caption with your post; also, please include the link to where you found the sample.  

Magdalena Atencio: ﻿Edvard Munch - The Scream

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Portrait of Henrik Ibsen Author During this period of Norway's National Romanticism

Barbara Lima: A reconstruction of the folk clothing used by the people of mid Norway during the 19th century [|Sourc][|e]

Maria Valles: This is a portrait of Christian Frederick which reminds me of the portrait that is mentioned in __Hedda Gabbler**,**__ of Hedda’s father. []



Marisa Viscal This is one of the "Det Dramatiske Selskab" theaters in Norway (around 1890), which is still in use to perform //Hedda Gabler// today.

View of Oslo Norway during the turn of the century. From [] Ignacio Riemens

The new parliment of Norway that was established after the Swedish King resigned. Building
 * Najla Solorzano**



media type="custom" key="8357518" [] This is a link to a song of Edward Greig, a Norwegian composer that lived during the Romantic era. He is known for a number of different sonatas, most of which are characterized by being somewhat wild and lively. This could give an idea of what Hedda gabler played on the piano seconds before committing suicide.

(Evelyn Anderson): This is a landscape painted by Hans Fredrik Gude, an influential and prestigious artist in Norway who would have been respected and emulated during Hedda Gabler's time. []

media type="custom" key="8358748" The link above is to a musical piece called Morganstimmung by Edvard Grieg. He composed this piece for Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt. It became famous all over England and France, propagating Norway's name and evolving its cultural heritage.
 * Aastha Minocha:**

Sigbjorn Obstfelder was one of the most important literary figures of late nineteenth century Norway. He was known mostly for his poems, many of which have been described as the "earliest examples of modernism in Norwegian literature." Below is an excerpt from the poem "Julaften."
 * Adrian Fernandez:**

Julaften! Julaften med julelys i vinduerne, bugnende juletrær i storstuerne, julesang ud gjennem dørsprækkerne!

Jeg vanked alene i gaderne og lytted til barnesangene. Jeg satte mig ned på trapperne og tænkte på min døde mor.

Og jeg gik ud på markerne — ud — blandt stjernerne. Min skygge gled hen over skyggerne af dødningearmede trær.

Jeg fandt et lig mellem sneglimtene, snejulelysene, et lig, som endnu bævrede, en stakkels frostdød spurv.

//English Translation:// Christmas Eve! Christmas Eve with candles in the windows, Decorated trees in the halls, Carols coming from the doorways!

I walked alone in the streets and listened to the carols. I sat down on the steps and thought of my dead mother.

I walked out in the fields — out — amongst the stars. My shadow crept over the shadows of skeleton armed trees.

I found a corpse between the glints of snow, the snow candles, a corpse, still living, a poor frostbitten starling.

http://www.johnderbyshire.com/Readings/julaften.html


 * Daniela Torres:**

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Picture of Bodo port Norway: Jacob []

(Ernesto Aveledo) I was searching for something relevant, when I found this:

A typical 19th century drawing room, but this one might have less clutter than described in __Hedda Gabler.__ This one seems to be more empty, yet one can see the kind of room that was used to receive visitors at the time. I think there should also be a sofa, some footstools, a whatnot, and maybe some other ornaments.

Joanna Livinalli: []

This photograph by Anders Beer Wilsen, shows an office which makes me think about the rooms in Hedda's house. Though this room might not have been one of the main rooms of the house, but it might have been a room such as where the men worked or had meetings.

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This shows a street site with a tram. This picture is a good representation of the times in which the Tesman lived in. This is how the streets looked in the 19th century as well as shows one of the main ways of transportations not only of that time but today as well.


 * Gabriela Arocha**

Andres Kim  This is Norske Folkeeventir, written by [|Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Engebretsen Moe]. This collection was written during the Romantic Nationalism period in 19th century Norway. []