A small selection of her literary influences include:
- Soren Kierkegaard: at least thirteen of Isak Dinesen's tales are based, in part, on stories by the great Danish philosopher.
- The Viking sagas
- Shakespeare's plays
- Mary Shelley
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Lord Byron
- Homer's Iliad and Odyssey
- Mozart's Don Juan
- Milton's Paradise Lost
- Charles Baudelaire
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Walt Whitman
- Goethe
- Nietzche
- Heinrich Heine
- Havamal, the bible of the pagan Scandinavian cosmos
- The Greek myths
- The Thousand and One Nights (The Arabian Nights)
- The Old and The New Testament
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