Although there is no single “Scandinavian tort law culture”, the author attempts to highlight some features that have impacted on tort law discourse in the Nordic countries over the last 100 years. Currently it seems that the intellectual tradition of Scandinavian Realism can possibly be challenged since Scandinavian tort law is influenced both by internal and external factors. Late modernity can pave the way for more pluralistic reasoning and the European influences concerning individual “rights” can be a challenge to the traditional societal and welfarist way of viewing collective issues of security and the standard of living. The author shows the developments by making “micro visits” (using 20-year intervals) to intellectual tort law discussions throughout the century while looking for traces of the ideas encountered in these environments in current tort law discourse. Scandinavian tort law culture is also addressed in the context of other cultural spheres, with particular reference to corresponding developments in music.