# The Dane — The Inferno character guide

> The Dane in The Inferno by August Strindberg.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0007-v-purgatory

## Who they are

A fellow traveler and acquaintance in the narrator's European exile.

## In the story

### [I: The Hand of the Invisible](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_inferno_se/chapters/i-the-hand-of-the-invisible)

Implied as part of the Scandinavian colony; the kindhearted woman who helps the narrator is from this community.

### [VII: Beatrice](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_inferno_se/chapters/vii-beatrice)

The theosophical friend who questions the nature of cyclones and corresponds with the narrator about occult matters.

### [Whither?](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_inferno_se/chapters/xv-whither)

Jorgensen, a convert to Catholicism, is mentioned in connection with the Beuron convent.

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