"Barbarian" assemblage of weapons discovered in Hrubieszów State Forests

Heritage Daily ^ | January 19, 2024 | Mark Milligan

[SunkenCiv]

Looks like they couldn’t get their hands on them when they really needed them, anyway.

[Rinnwald]

Didn’t somebody say “when you’re burying arms, you should be using them”?

[MoochPooch]

The term barbarian is the Latin derivative of how a Roman would describe the speech of the nothern tribes. To the romans their speech sounded like the bleating of sheep. “Ba...Ba...Ba...Ba”

I thought it had something to do with the Romans' being clean-shaven. They equated these tribes with bearded men -- hence, the word "barbe."

I also heard that the word may have originated from Greek, as well. The xenophobic Greeks equated beards with foreigners.

[moovova]

Brings to mind that Led Zep song...”Whole Lotta Love”.

[Libloather]

Get them replaced for free.

[Burma Jones]

When seconds count, your buried weapons are only minutes away...

[HereInTheHeartland]

“ Looks like they couldn’t get their hands on them when they really needed them, anyway.”

They had government mandated spear locks attached and someone lost the key.

[SunkenCiv]

lol

[Cronos]

allendale The term barbarian is the Latin derivative of how a Roman would describe the speech of the nothern tribes. To the romans their speech sounded like the bleating of sheep. “Ba...Ba...Ba...Ba”

One point wrong, Allen -- The English term “barbarian” is derived from the Greek barbaros, Latinized as barbarus.

The rest of what you wrote is correct

Moochpooch, it had nothing to be done with beards - the Greeks were big on their beards, it was a Latin thing to go clean-shaven (as then when you fought, your opponent had nothing to grab on)

This is similar to the Polish (and to a large extent Slavic) terms:

for Germans - Niemcy - basically from "mute" i.e. people who can't speak clearly

Wloch - Italians - the origin is from the German term Wallach meaning Italic speaking non-German and was the term for the Britons (hence Wales/Welsh), French (Wallons/Wallonia), Romanians (Vlachs, Wallachia)

[DesertRhino]

No, that’s what we called them. That is the name we assigned to non-Greco Roman traditions.

[dfwgator]

More like AC/DC’s Whole Lotta Rosie.