Contents

• 3 Benjamin Sigismund and the Old Charcoal Wagoner
• 15 After the Long Winter Sleep
• 18 The First Night in Bergstaden
• 23 And the First Morning
• 3031 No Red Carpet or Bed of Roses for Kings and Princes
• 41 Ol‐Kanelesa, Smith and Sacristan
• 48 A Dream of a Golden Stone
• 55 Gunhild Bonde
• 58 Pastor and Sacristan
• 67 The Third Sunday after Trinity
• 93 Ellen von Westen Hammond’s Birthday
• 100 Benjamin Sigismund
• 104 Sun and Midsummer Day
• 117 The Bell at Arvedal Again Sings the Praise of the Lord
• 125 An Old German Earthenware Beaker
• 136 The Hittite’s Wife
• 144 The Cherubim’s Flaming Sword
• 163 The First Winter Night
• 176 How Can the Blind Lead the Blind?
• 194 Colonel von Bang’s Brigade
• 208 David and Notler
• 217 The Tower Window
• 234 Night in Bergstaden’s Church
• 243 Wanderers in the Desert
• 252 “Mountains, Hide Me, Envelop Me”
• 258 The Spinner
• 262 Ol‐Kanelesa and the New Ellen
• 266 Good Friday
• 278 The Fourth Night Watch