''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

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when Ibsen was 22 years old. The play was first performed at the Christiania Theater on 26 September 1850, under Ibsen's

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Brynjolf Bjarme. The play was re-written in 1954 for a new performance at "Det Norske Theater" in Bergen, where Ibsen at the time worked as a writer, producer and director.

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