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 A PLAY IN THREE ACTS BY

ARNE NORREVANG

Translated from the Norwegian by

MRS. HERMAN SANDBY

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This play is based upon one of the legends of the fiddlers who used to go about from valley to valley, playing for the peasants at their festivities.

Enthralled by the power of the fiddler, we are drawn up the mountains. We breathe the rarefied atmosphere of the highest peaks, and feel the strange, penetrating light of the midsummer night, the light which is neither of day nor night, but seems to come from another world "and force itself beyond our heavy eyelids!" It is the moment when the "great red sun of night stands still, while mortals dream!"

We see the vision ; we seem to tread upon the clouds; we are under the spell of the enchantment! The story is one of love and renunciation. The "great moment" has to be paid for! She who cannot live within her mother's white dwelling has to die! "She has gone too long upon the mountains with the sight of the glistening snow in her eyes." She enters the land of mist!

Since "Peer Gynt" we have hardly had any lyric drama from Norway so full of the poetry and mysticism of the mountains, as this work by the promising young author, Arne Norrevang.

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