Prelude. A season in Hell: Copenhagen 1969
The conversion of the Icelanders
Amleth, Luther and the last priest: the Reformation in Scandinavia
The King of the past: Frederik VII of Denmark
The Vasa ship: Sweden's age of greatness
Abductions: the war between the Danes and Algerians
The short sweet rule of Johann Friedrich Struensee
Taking God at His word: Søren Kierkegaard and Olav Fiskvik
The loneliness of the long-distance explorer
Interlude: Ibsen's Ghosts
World War II: the Scandinavian experience
The power of Scandinavian women
Dagny Juel and the invention of melancholy
