Peer Gynt Gynt" was written in Danish, the common written language of Denmark and Norway since the Dano-Norwegian union and throughout Ibsen's lifetime. The language was usually referred to as Danish in Denmark and as Norwegian in Norway, although it was essentially the same written language, and is therefore often called Dano-Norwegian. Due to its basis in Norwegian folktales, the play uses a few Norwegianisms in its vocabulary and idiom, but is otherwise written in a language identical to standard Danish. "Peer Gynt" was originally published by the Danish publisher Gyldendal in Copenhagen and targeted at both the Danish and the Norwegian
Greta Gynt Is a Woman" (1957) and the lead in "Morning Call" (1957), and "The Crowning Touch" (1959). Gynt had a support role in "Bluebeard's Ten Honeymoons" (1959). Her last film was a Columbia Pictures release, "The Runaway" 1963 (released 1966) in which she played the lead. Reportedly, she adopted the name Gynt after she heard a pianist playing Edvard Grieg's "Peer Gynt Suite" in a hotel in London in the late 1930s. In her 1938 radio interview with NRK she states her husband exclaimed "What's this?" and her name was born. Gynt was married four times. Her last husband was Frederick