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