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The timbers of the ship grown as it lurches over the choppy surface of the grey North Sea.

Waves slap against its prow. the Above them a large square sail billows in the stiff breeze, the canvas snapping every time it catches a gust.

The sailors pull their seal skin hoods around their faces and clap their hands to try and stay warm.

From time to time, one of the passengers will stagger across the deck to the coast of Norway.

It's September 1290, not dangerously late in the year to sail, but not like rowing across a mill pond either.

At some point, everyone on board has been sick.

One passenger is sicker than all the rest though.

She's a seven-year-old girl called Margaret and she really hasn't found her sea legs. And she's been ill since the beginning of the journey.

So unwell that some of the more experienced crew suspect it isn't seasickness that's troubling her, but food poisoning from the somewhat non-Gorme rations on board.

Young Margaret is in such a bad way that the ship is going to have to break its journey and put into land at the next stop.

That's the islands of Orkney, Norwegian territory just off the mainland of Scotland.

There, the crew reckon, Margaret can get some rest and medical attention before they push on to their final destination,

a meeting in England with Edward I, the Plantagenet King.

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