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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