Svenný I of Vinland (The Kalmar Union)

While her mother had vigorously battled and cajoled the Althing into a modern parliament Svenný I had little time for the nuances of politics. More interested in court life she was renowned, even as a princess, for lavishly extravagant soirees. In fact they came at such a cost that she severely ran down the private wealth of the royal treasury. The Althing, hardly averse to spending huge sums itself, was forced to bail her out not once, but twice in 1820 & 1823. This led to a slimming down of the royal estate. Much of the land owned directly by the crown was put under a government branch to iron out any mismanagement and Svenný, and her successors, were in effect put on a salary.

Half Auvergnese, she was passionate about art and culture from Europe, particularly from Southern Francia and the Mediterranean. Her preferred residence, the grand manor in Karontóborg, was soon remodelled into an Auvergnese chateau and many of the nobility began aping her, importing or copying works of art from the Midi and eventually looking eastwards to Roman and Greek styles. Already a rite of passage for many nobles, the Grand European tour, or 'Mekíll Fert', became even more essential and it was the done thing to bring a back antiquities. This style of art and architecture, soon named Svennyite, would dominate Vinland for a century, replacing the Wilhelmine styles of the 18th century. As del Olmo and Hispania began to threaten the French states in the 1820s concern spread. Her brother Georges would travel to Europe and eventually lead an Imperial divison. But the Althing had to remind her there were more pressing matters at home.

The potato crop failed on Eikland and Kyreyja in 1821. Already affected by the general poor harvests of the late 1810s almost half of the population of the two Fylkír would emigrate, mostly to the inland Fylkír of Nor and Sud Hafsvaedaland. While there was plenty of land to accomodate the newcomers it severely disrupted the balance of power. While many of the new farmers found themselves no better than serfs on the land of the lords the older established populations, including many unintegrated tribes, found themselves swamped in many areas. Stripped of power, both the enserfed incomers and the outnumbered locals revolted. While hastily enacted laws effectively abolished serfdom as a concept and forced lords to allow farmers to buy their land through a set number of years' work no one had an answer to the tribal issue. The result was the 1824-5 Sauk Revolt.

The revolt cut off the Saukland from the rest of Vinland and it would take the army six months to pacify the region after several bloody pitched battles and the burning of Saginaw. Saukland, always a semi-autonomous fyklír dominated by various tribal groups, was made subject to Vinlandic dominted Karontóborg. The 'Saukland Question' has been a steady bugbear to Althings since.

Dispite her overt Franco-philia she married a native Vinlander, Lord Hreidar of Karontóborg. They had two children.


 * Hreidar Hreidarsson (b. 1817) - heir to Karontóborg.
 * Thorsteinn Hreidarsson (b. 1818) - married Princess Amelia-Maria of Svealand, granted Earldom of Konunglegursaey after it became vacant in 1840.

Svenný would die in April 1832 at the relatively young age of 35, after falling from her horse after it scared during a firework display in Fjallasay. She would be succeeded by her niece, also called Svenný.