Three more 'What if' poems today. Here an auld heid speaks fondly of the communal spirit of Skara Brae, and the legend of Pictish Ale gets reversed. The legend was that the last two Picts who held the secret of Pictish Ale jumped off the Mull of Galloway rather than surrender it to the Romans. Here that doesn't happen, with world changing consequence.
In the third poem St Columba doesn't convert the Picts to Christianity but gets strangled by Eithne, a spunky Pictish Princess.
My website below, and also the story of Pictish Ale, and a brilliant poem on the subject by Robert Louis Stevenson.
https://www.thoughtco.com/heather-ale-by-robert-louis-stevenson-4077751
https://www.hughmcmillanwriter.co.uk/
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