Cover -- Zusammenfassung -- Contents -- Introduction: Nordic Ideology, Religion and Scholarship (Horst Junginger and Andreas Åkerlund) -- Notion and Concept of the Nordic Idea -- The Notions Völkisch and Nordic: A Conceptual Approximation (Uwe Puschner) -- Nordic Ideology in the SS and the SS Ahnenerbe (Horst Junginger) -- Religion, Science and Ideology in Germany and Sweden -- The Eddic Myth between Academic and Religious Interpretations (Debora Dusse) -- Charisma, Authority and Heil: Walter Baetke and the Chasm of 1945 (Bernard Mees) -- The Great God's Oldest Runes (Luitgard Löw) -- "Luthers Kampf gegen die Juden": A völkisch Reception of Luther's View of the Jews (Anders Gerdmar) -- Völkisch Thought in Sweden: The Manhem Society and the Quest for National Enlightenment 1934-44 (Lena Berggren) -- Nordic Studies in National Socialist Germany: A Possible Career Path for Swedish Academics (Andreas Åkerlund) -- The Migration of the Nordic Idea -- Sven Hedin and German Scholars: The Cases of Wilhelm A. Unkrig and Ferdinand Lessing (Hartmut Walravens) -- The Holy City of Lhasa: Dream and Destination for Sven Hedin and Ernst Schäfer (Isrun Engelhardt) -- The Use of Theories of Religion in Contemporary Asatru (Stefanie v. Schnurbein) -- A Völkisch Addendum -- Photographs of Wirth's Excursions to Sweden -- Summary of "The Great God's Oldest Runes" "Fimbultý's Prehistoric Runes" (Voluspá 60) by Herman Wirth -- About the authors.