Synopsis: The Walls that Speak

The novel is set around a stavechurch, a medieval Norwegian wooden church. I study the graffiti which is found in these churches, so I decided to write the stories behind some of these comments which people scratched on the wooden walls so long ago. Each chapter is based around an actual inscription, but the stories behind the texts are fiction. Will Sigurd marry his childhood sweetheart Rannveig, whose name he paints high above the altar as he decorates the rafters, or will he go to Bergen to learn to be a painter? What will happen to the exiled prince on the run from the usurper king who killed his father and who takes sanctuary in the church? Will the pilgrim make it to Trondheim in time for St Olaf's mass so he can pray for healing for his wife? Will Inge agree to become the concubine of the priest Arne who loves her although he is not allowed to marry? These lives and many more are all borne witness to by the stavechurch whose walls carry the bare bones of their stories. Finally, what is the fate of the church itself when its community is wiped out by the Black Death?
Although all of the texts are genuine, they come from different stavechurches throughout Norway.