Synne and Murchad

Synne is the King’s lively teenaged cousin, and shy Murchad is the son of his closest ally, Lord Aed of Galloway. Their future is decided for them as matters of politics, but the two wise young creatures manage to make the best of it, and develop a touching affection and loyalty to one another in spite of their trials.

Their storyline is a nice change of pace from the family dramas going on around them.

Theme: Arranged marriage

Rating: G

Chapters: 50
Written between May 11, 2006, and April 15, 2012.

Brede reads his letter and gets a shock	October 20	1077
Brede is only surprised	March 22	1078
The girls engage in idle talk	April 17	1078
Malcolm and Iylaine meet their match	April 19	1078
Sigrid spies Eirik	April 25	1078
Sigefrith asks Brede's opinion	May 5	1078
Brede makes a threat	May 30	1078
Something is wrong with Sigrid	June 23	1078
Sigrid has only herself to blame	September 26	1078
Synne is forbidden	December 17	1078
Hilda lets another secret slip	January 11	1079
Hilda tells of her new pet	March 15	1079
Synne brings the news	May 14	1079
Sigefrith returns with news for Estrid	August 3	1079
Malcolm and Iylaine are not alone	September 20	1079
Brede finds a full bed	September 21	1079
Sigefrith invites Aengus and Murchad on a trip	May 7	1080
Synne gets an invitation	June 10	1080
Synne speaks of beards	June 10	1080
Malcolm tests his mastery	June 27	1080
Synne is shown her way	July 4	1080
Synne steps into the light	July 5	1080
Estrid gives some advice	August 4	1080
Murchad is offered a towel	August 12	1080
Synne is revealed	September 10	1080
Synne comes to help	November 23	1080
Hilda has some cousinly advice for Estrid	February 14	1081
Princess Emma reassures Synne	March 12	1081
Synne's long battle begins	May 22	1081
Synne goes up with her dearest friend	September 14	1081
Sigrid begins to hope	February 23	1082
Eirik returns from a difficult journey	April 10	1082
Eirik has no news	August 3	1082
Eirik makes a threat	February 2	1083
A pair of loobies goes flying out to sea	March 10	1083
Synne wakes before dawn	June 10	1083
Eirik knows where Murchad can be found	June 10	1083
Murchad fears the curse of cats	December 5	1085
Eirik asks anything	December 5	1085
Sigrid is made sure	December 15	1085
Murchad is certainly wrong or secretly right	December 16	1085
Murchad gets a message from the dead	March 20	1086
Murchad learns the terrible truth	March 27	1086
Murchad is no longer that small	March 28	1086
Sadb tells a little something	March 28	1086
Uallach seeks signs of spring	March 30	1086
Murchad is let down by the rules	April 12	1086
Sadb and Uallach face their fears	April 14	1086
Murchad remembers his promise	April 14	1086
Thorkell steps into a saga	April 15	1086