When Does "Arak: Son of Thunder" #2 (1981) Take Place?
"ARAK: SON OF THUNDER" #2 "The Devil Takes a Bride!" is a fantasy historical fiction comic-book written by Roy Thomas that released June 16th, 1981. So when is "Arak: Son of Thunder" #2 set?
It takes place on the fictional DC Comics Universe timeline in the year:
We know this because Lord Hessa says, "Silence, viking! I know how your kind treated the monks at Lindisfarne and Jarrow, these past summers"... The tragic real-world Viking raid of the monastery on Lindisfarne island happened on June 8th, 793 AD and the second tragic real-world Viking raid on the double abbey house known as Monkwearmouth–Jarrow happened in 794 AD.
795 AD
We know this because Lord Hessa says, "Silence, viking! I know how your kind treated the monks at Lindisfarne and Jarrow, these past summers"... The tragic real-world Viking raid of the monastery on Lindisfarne island happened on June 8th, 793 AD and the second tragic real-world Viking raid on the double abbey house known as Monkwearmouth–Jarrow happened in 794 AD.
794 + 1 = 795.
Additionally, there is a short flashback that begins when Corinna says, 'It was years ago in the days when the one called "The Hammer"-- grandsire of Carolus Magnus--drove the Saracens from the land.' and indeed the grandfather of King Carolus Magnus a.k.a. King Charlemagne (748-814) was the real-world French King Charles Martel (688-741), and "martel" us Old French for "hammer". He reigned from sometime in 718 AD to his death on October 22nd, 741 AD so the flashback probably takes place during or after 718 AD and before or during October of 741 AD. It is otherwise unplaceable.
