The Pictish king deceives the Nordics as he leads them into a trap and wipes them out. These Nordics dispise all Picts, they insult Bran Mak Morn and eventually kill his "sweetheart". This synopsis describes a story that begins with a fight along Hadrian's Wall, the Pictish fighters are being lead by Bran Mak Morn.Īs things progress, Bran becomes allied with one Allectus, but Allectus has other allies, the untrustworthy Northmen. This gives us much more of a handle on the Bran Mak Morn adventures. From that fact one can extrapolate that the period of Bran's active kingship could run from about 275 to 315 AD, give or take a decade here or there. Howard has this synopsis describing events from 296-300 AD. Wagner dates Howard's completed Bran Mak Morn tales as happening between 200 and 210 AD. Readers of Karl Edward Wagner's Bran Mak Morn pastiche, Legion From The Shadows, may have noted that, aided by David A. One of the things the synopsis from Cromlech #3 does is that it helps us date the Bran Mak Morn stories.
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