Why is Barbarian in scare quotes? That is who and what they were.
Conan, what is best in life? To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you and to hear the lamentation of their women!
Did they self identify as “Barbarians”?
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”
Indeed.
And they’re not made of corroded iron. They’re made of iron, which has since corroded. (Severely ...)