The Burial Mound

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The Burial Mound (Kjæmpehøjen) was Henrik Ibsen's second play and his first play to be performed. It is a one-act verse drama, written in 1850 when Ibsen was 22 years old. The play was first performed at the Christiania Theater on 26 September 1850, under Ibsen's pseudonym Brynjolf Bjarme.{{Cite web |title=The Burial Mound (1850) |url=https://www.hf.uio.no/is/english/services/virtual-ibsen-centre/on-ibsen-s-work/k1/ |access-date=July 13, 2024 |website=The Virtual Ibsen Center |publisher=University of Oslo |publication-date=July 10, 2023}}

The play was re-written in 1854 for a new performance at "Det Norske Theater" in Bergen, where Ibsen at the time worked as a writer, producer and director.