Viking warrior Sigurd won a brutal battle and took his enemies' heads as trophies. But one of those heads had the last laugh—ending Sigurd’s life in a freak accident.

Riding a wave of demand driven by AI smartphones, servers, ASICs, optical transceivers, and networking gear, Taiwan-based IC testing firm Sigurd Microelectronics is scaling up investment to expand ...

Background In the spring of 2018, the Henrik Ibsen Museum in Skien was preparing for a new exhibition featuring the poet's personal possessions. During this process, they found a wallet containing ...

HENRIK IBSEN DEAD; NORWAY IN MOURNING; King and Queen Send Condolenoes to His Widow. CAPITAL'S THEATRES CLOSE Funeral of the Poet and Dramatist to be a Stat Functionlncident$ of His Active Life.

It's both brave and bracing to welcome new voices to the West End, but sometimes one wonders if such exposure necessarily works to the benefit of those involved. And so it is with My Master Builder, ...

No theatre would stage Ibsen’s coruscating play when it was first written, managers shying away from the Norwegian’s frank treatment of incest, venereal disease and social hypocrisy.

Strengthening the ties between Skien, the hometown of the Norwegian playwright, poet, and theater director Henrik Ibsen, and Sorrento, where he stayed for long periods and wrote some of his most ...

Henrik Ibsen: The Man and the Mask, by Ivo de Figueiredo. Translated from the Norwegian by Robert Ferguson. Yale University Press. 704 pages. $40. In early 1879, scandal struck the Scandinavian ...

We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of Sigurd J. Anderson at his home at The Waters in Rochester on Saturday, February 8, 2025. He is survived by his wife of 66 years, Elsiemae, son ...

Thanks to a 1931 Luther College alumnus’ passion for collecting books, the college’s Preus Library now has an almost complete set of Henrik Ibsen first editions in its special collections. Mary Kvamme ...

During a visit to Norway, the author explores the rich tapestry of Norwegian literature through the works of Ibsen and Hamsun.