“Most of the play is pretty; some of it is beautiful; all of it has a vague distinction. But its fine-drawn, capricious scenes are matter for amiable gossip over tea-tables rather than serious discussion… We can say this without abating our appreciation of the high value of the totality of Björnson’s artistic achievement, now extending over some fifty years.
The translation is bad.”
Anonymous, ‘Last of the Vikings’ Laboremus: book review, The Academy, London:1901
