Show ABOUT IBSEN S PLAY PLA I LANGUAGE N Interesting dl discussion as all to tho the AN A language In n which Ibsen wrote Tote his plays play Is 18 just now being waged In Russian literary circles A translation Into Russian of all the thereat great reat Norwegian dramatists work Is III being undertaken by hy the tho Dacs Dal s who In the preface to the tho first special emphasis on of the tact fact that tho the translation III Is from the Danish Commenting on this point the Russ remarks that It was Vas a I great gr lt advantage to Ibsen to write In inthe tho the Danish language for tor ho used the tongue Unit that Is understood by b both Danes Dones anti and Norwegians Hut lint what real really realI really ly I led to 10 the present discussion was Ioas tho rho following comment made by tho the abovementioned Journal Thero are aro some Fome of ot translators who ho mall main tain that they translated his works from the Norwegians This however Is lit calculated C to create a n misunderstand misunderstanding ing for nt Rt the tho th time Ibsen wrote his earlier plays there did not exist an nil or organized nl language Tho rho at attempt to create ge geis tempt to create crealo a n Norwegian language Is U a work of recent years carl Continuing Its It argument tho tint Hus says Wo do not Mt know which language Is lit 11 to by those gentlemen who claim that their aro are from the Norwegian It Il wits was but natural that this should bring about a n chorus of protest from the translators M Al among others who hold 1101 1 that lint Ibsen works are written In Norwegian and that their translation Is III produced front from the Ille latter language and of ot course they once more declared pad and still declare point pointblank pointblank blank that lint In la this view Iel they are aro i correct I They Ihl quote In hr support of their state alato statement I ment tho the dramatists eightieth birthday 1111 In 1898 published a pamphlet entitled Ibsen and tind the 1110 But Hut the welt known Danish writer M Is U reported to have saM said that tho language of ot Is the tho purest Danish and so flO also IH is that of tho the ma majority majority of ot the Norwegian writers and 1 that Ibsen spared no In iii acquiring u a 1 most roost thorough knowl know knowledge edge of the purest Danish I dialect which In is principally spoken In Coi COIn n hagen A L r |