some cool pictures of a norse god

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Tautalos said:

I don't think that that is the case here.

What happens is that Conan's world is a fantasy based on History. I.e., his creator, Robert Erwin Howard, invented an ancient world that existed before the known History.
A map of Conan's world would show several nations who bear lots of resemblances with historic nations: there are Vanaheim, Asgard (kingdoms of two different families of Gods, in the Nordic Tradition), Hiperborea, Britúnia (western Germanics), Nemedia (idem - Nemed is also the name of a given mythic folk of Ireland), the land of the Picts, and also Argos (which would be the ancestors of... Greece), Aquilonia (the biggest empire of Conan's time, quite similar to Rome), Stygia (Egypt), Khithai (China), Hirkania (Iran), etc..

There was an historical folk named Cimmerian, which was of Iranian ethnicity, close related to the Scythians. There is a chance that the Celts were influenced by Scythes.... and thus, that could be the reason why R. E. Howard invented Conan's Cimmerians as being the ancestors of the historical Celts.

I think you're trying to rationalize the ignorance of the author. Iran in his books is IRANISTAN, a kingdom on the border with ZEMBABWE!!! ( typically american knowledge of geography ).

Argos isn't Greece, the realm called KORYNTHIA is.
etc. etc.

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AWAR said:

After all, there is a possibility that his real name was Coen the Barbarian ;D

Does that mean you're a Discworld fan too?

*rusalka starts dancing the polka*

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rusalka said:

Does that mean you're a Discworld fan too?

*rusalka starts dancing the polka*

No, I've never read anything by Terry Pratchett, but I intend to. Is Coen the barbarian his joke?

I also never read anything by Douglas Adams and a lot of other books I didn't have the money to buy

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AWAR said:

No, I've never read anything by Terry Pratchett, but I intend to. Is Coen the barbarian his joke?

For me, it is. Cohen the Barbarian is one of his top characters. You HAVE to check him out!

I also never read anything by Douglas Adams and a lot of other books I didn't have the money to buy

You would absoulutely LOVE both Pratchett and Douglas Adams. They're both your style. I could swear that you have read them by the way you're writing, it's creepy.

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rusalka said:

For me, it is. Cohen the Barbarian is one of his top characters. You HAVE to check him out!

but

You would absoulutely LOVE both Pratchett and Douglas Adams. They're both your style. I could swear that you have read them by the way you're writing, it's creepy.

Good creepy or bad creepy?

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AWAR said:

Good creepy or bad creepy?

Good creepy of course, you creep! ;D

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rusalka said:

Good creepy of course, you creep! ;D

Nerd