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Updated: May 13, 2025
"Paul Lange and Tora Parsberg," the next play, deals with the passions engendered by political controversy, and made much unpleasant stir in Norwegian society because certain of the characters and situations were unmistakeably taken from real life.
Besides the two above named, these modern plays of Bjoernson are, with their dates, the following: "The King" , "Leonarda" , "The New System" , "A Glove" , "Beyond the Strength I." , "Geography and Love" , "Beyond the Strength II." , "Paul Lange and Tora Parsberg" , "Laboremus" , and "At Storhove" . Since the cessation of Ibsen's activity, Bjoernson has outrun him in the race, adding "Daglannet" , and "When the New Wine Blooms" to the list above given.
He was at a wedding, and got into a quarrel with a Herr Manderup Parsberg, and it went so far that they fought a duel. Tyge Brahe lost his nose. But he had a nose made of gold and silver, so artistically correct that no one could see that it was any other than his own nose, and of flesh and blood; but to be sure that it should not be lost, he always carried some glue in his pocket."
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