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