Hedda Gabler of the Sol Invictus album "In The Rain". The Norwegian hard-rock band Black Debbath recorded the song "Motörhedda Gabler" on their Ibsen-inspired album "Naar Vi Døde Rocker" ("When We Dead Rock"). As the title suggests, the song is also influenced by British heavy metal band Motörhead. The original play "Heddatron" by Elizabeth Meriwether (b. 1981) melds "Hedda Gabler" with a modern family's search for love despite the invasion of technology into everyday life. In the 2013 novel "Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy" by Helen Fielding, Bridget tries and fails to write a modernised version of "Hedda Gabler", which she
Peer Gynt than what is to be found in Asbjørnsen's "Norwegian Folktales" (in the section entitled 'Stories from the Mountain')." In those stories, Peer Gynt rescues the three dairy-maids from the trolls and shoots the Bøyg, who was originally a gigantic worm-shaped troll-being. Peer was known to tell tall tales of his own achievements, a trait Peer in the play inherited. The "buck-ride" story, which Peer tells his mother in the play's first scene, is also from this source, but, as Åse points out, it was originally Gudbrand Glesne from Vågå who did the tour with the reindeer stag and finally shot