Contents

Cover

Welcome Page

About Scandinavians

Dedication

Preface

Map of Scandinavia

Prelude. A Season in Hell: Copenhagen 1969

A Note on Scandinavian Languages

1.   Stones

2.   The Conversion of the Icelanders

3.   Amleth, Luther and the Last Priest: the Reformation in Scandinavia

4.   The King of the Past: Frederik VII of Denmark

5.   The Vasa Ship: Sweden’s Age of Greatness

6.   Abductions: The War Between the Danes and Algerians

7.   The Short Sweet Rule of Johann Friedrich Struensee

8.   Taking God at His Word: Søren Kierkegaard and Olav Fiskvik

9.   The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Explorer

Interlude: Ibsen’s Ghosts

10.  The Emigrants

11.  World War II: The Scandinavian Experience

12.  The Power of Scandinavian Women

13.  Dagny Juel and the Invention of Melancholy

14.  Malexander

15.  Oslo 2016

A Scandinavian Timeline

For Further Interest

Acknowledgements

Index

About Robert Ferguson

An Invitation from the Publisher

Copyright