<Ul> <Li> Nobel Prize--winning English author Rudyard Kipling contributed to the popular image of the "Great Pict Wall" in his short stories about Parnesius, a Roman legionary who defended the Wall against the Picts . These stories are a part of the Puck of Pook's Hill cycle, published in 1906 . </Li> <Li> American author George R.R. Martin has acknowledged that Hadrian's Wall was the inspiration for The Wall in his best - selling series A Song of Ice and Fire, dramatised in the fantasy TV series Game of Thrones, which is also in the north of its country and stretches from coast to coast . </Li> <Li> In MJ Trow's fictional Britannia series, Hadrian's Wall is the central location and portrays Coel Hen and Padarn Beisrudd as limitanei . </Li> <Li> Hadrian's Wall, by Adrian Goldsworthy, publ April 2018 </Li> </Ul> <Li> Nobel Prize--winning English author Rudyard Kipling contributed to the popular image of the "Great Pict Wall" in his short stories about Parnesius, a Roman legionary who defended the Wall against the Picts . These stories are a part of the Puck of Pook's Hill cycle, published in 1906 . </Li> <Li> American author George R.R. Martin has acknowledged that Hadrian's Wall was the inspiration for The Wall in his best - selling series A Song of Ice and Fire, dramatised in the fantasy TV series Game of Thrones, which is also in the north of its country and stretches from coast to coast . </Li> <Li> In MJ Trow's fictional Britannia series, Hadrian's Wall is the central location and portrays Coel Hen and Padarn Beisrudd as limitanei . </Li>

Is the wall in game of thrones based on hadrian wall