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Bran Mak Morn is a hero of five pulp fiction short stories by Robert E. Howard. In the stories, most of which were first published in ''Weird Tales'', Bran is the last king of Howard's romanticized version of the tribal race of Picts. ==Howard's history of the Picts== At 13, Howard, being of Scottish descent, began his studies of Scottish history and became fascinated with what he calls "the small dark Mediterranean aborigines of Britain."〔"Foreword" in ''Bran Mak Morn'', Robert E. Howard, Dell Publishing Company, 1969, p. 8-9.〕 As these Picts were portrayed as inferior to later tribes, Howard imagined them as a link between modern and ancient times. His Picts originated on a group of islands near what was once Valusia, the kingdom of the Atlantean Kull. When Atlantis, Lemuria, and Valusia sank into the sea, the Picts survived and were flung into a period of cultural decline. They forgot the art of metalworking and returned to the technique of flintknapping. They migrated to the North until they reached Caledon, the northern lands of the later British Isles. They drove the extant tribes northward until the Aryans, Celts, and Germans invaded.〔"Kings of the Night" in ''Bran Mak Morn'', p. 65-6.〕 The Picts were pushed to the North, where they mingled with the tribes they had defeated earlier. Forgetting most of their technological skills, they became brutish and skilled in warcraft.〔"Men of the Shadows" in ''Bran Mak Morn'', p. 51.〕 Although Bran Mak Morn has dark eyes, he does not resemble the Caledonian Picts as Howard depicts them. He refers to himself as a Mediterranean, possibly meaning that he associates himself with the more ancient Picts.〔"Men of the Shadows" in ''Bran Mak Morn'', p. 39.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bran Mak Morn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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