Excerpt from Henrik Ibsen: The Man and His Plays IN 1720, a Danish sea - captain, bearing the name of Peter Ibsen, set his face toward Norway and eu tered the town Of Bergen, a seaport on the rugged southwest coast of the Scandinavian peninsula. He hailed from moen, to the southeast of Zeeland, and the blood of the Vikings flowed in his veins.1 But no sooner had he become a full citizen of the provin cial community than he married a German lady, and by this union Henrik Petersen Ibsen, the great grandfather of the dramatist, was born. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.