Contents

Prologue

PART ONE: THE GRAND DESIGN

1. An Encounter in the Deer Park

2. Couplings

3. A Maiden’s Voyage

PART TWO: IMPERIUM DANIAE

1. The Guest

2. The Best of all Possible Worlds

3. Two-Kings

4. Deliver Us from Evil

5. Nothing Human is Alien to Me

6. The Son

7. A Prayer for Jomfru Titius

8. Diableries

9. A Theatre of Death

10. Correspondence

11. The Art of Producing Gold

12. Thy Children So Fair

13. Wanderings

14. A Virgin Birth

15. A Night-time Conversation

16. Sunlight Streaming

17. The Final Palace

18. A Duel

19. A Final Salute

PART THREE: FATHERS AND SONS

1. Nielsus Egidius Groenlandicus

2. A Minor Perlustration

3. As Long as I Breathe, I Hope

4. Mene, Tekel

5. Messenger

6. Get Thee Behind Me, Satan!

7. Katarina’s Hymns

8. Saint Gertrud

9. Saint Hans

Epilogue

List of Characters

Afterword

Bibliography

Acknowledgements

Specific to the English translation