A curious thing, but welcome. A 54-minute reading of a scholarly essay, in an audiobook style more suited to reading Conan. The essay is by Rusty Burke and Patrice Louinet, “Robert E. Howard, Bran Mak Morn and The Picts”, and it appears to have been recorded because it was part of the Howard collection Bran Mac Morn: The Last King, Del Rey, 2005. Now on YouTube. Backup: Mirror.

Genuine Pictish or Irish brooch, circa 800 A.D. Note the ‘winged ones’ perched around the edge of the design which circles the amber stones…