Rising, Norway

Rising is an old estate, area and geographical entity (Norwegian: matrikkelgård) in Gjerpen, Norway, known for its association with Henrik Ibsen.

Already in the Viking Age the estate was divided into a southern and a northern farm.

The Rising farms were owned by the church in the Middle Ages and later became part of the Gjerpen provost's estate.

Knud's stepfather Ole Paus bought Rising in 1799 after he had sold the Ibsen House in Skien's Løvestrædet, and lived there with his wife, Knud's mother, until her death in 1847.

Alongside Altenburggården and Venstøp, Rising was an important part of Henrik Ibsen's childhood environment, as his grandparents' home, and Ibsen used the family from Rising and its family traditions as models for people and episodes in several dramas, including The Wild Duck, Peer Gynt, An Enemy of the People and Hedda Gabler, where the name Rising also appears in the form Rysing.