From the jacket: Set in the landscape of Dinesen's native Denmark, the stories create a mythical kingdom. A lord devises a cruel test for a peasant woman who seeks freedom for her imprisoned son. A couple, adrift on an ice floe in the North Sea, plucks ecstasy from death. A man who discovers that he has just spent the night with the wrong woman talks over his predicament with God. Young men dream of privileged women; the natural and the supernatural alternate; objects mystically embody the riddles of existence.
