Papegøien (English: The Parrot) is a farce from 1835, written by Norwegian writer Henrik Wergeland under the pseudonym "Siful Sifadda".
[2][3][4] Johan, a spoiled Danish brat, is punished on midsummer eve by his uncle, the "sensible" Tobias Güldenthal (proprietor of the Gyldendal bookstore in Copenhagen).
Johan has been naughty, spanking his mother, being rude to people around him, and during his grounding in the garden, he effectively maims and kills a butterfly, a scarab beetle, and ribs the parrot resting nearby.
After a period of lodging at the house of the poet Promethevs (a parody of the elderly Adam Oehlenschläger), the uncles Tobias and Zacharias decide to send the parrot forth to Norway, to be a book-keeper there, and run the Christiania branch of the Gyldendal bookstore.
In the bookstore, the gang makes a point of slander all of Siful's poetry (even reciting some of Wergeland's own "high" poems).
Poetikkel follows Johan to Denmark, entering the abode of the "sensible" uncle Tobias, to present his lengthy poem on Norwegian topics to him.
A singing fisherman in the opening parts laments the "cruel waves", who without mercy bring foreigners to Norwegian shores (referring to the Napoleonic Wars and their effect on Norway).