Glossary:Barbarian

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 * Definition       = Barbarian is a subjective term, referring to a human perceived as uncivilized or primitive by another party. The use of the term is often derogatory or negative.

The concept was heavily exploited by the literary genre "Sword and Sorcery", such as the stories of Conan by Robert E. Howard, in which the negative connotations of the word are often inverted.{{r|Barbarian at Wikipedia}} Other characters, such as Kull and Bran Mak Morn, also created by Howard, Thongor, created by Lin Carter, or Brak, by John Jakes, are barbarians of their own eras.

Aditionnally to their adaptations of the above-mentioned characters, Marvel Comics has created its own barbarians, such as Starr the Slayer, Kronak the Barbarian, King of Terragonia, or Vandal the Barbarian.

The term is sometimes equated to "savage".{{r|Savage Sword of Conan #12|; The Hyborian Age - Chapter III: The Hyborian Kingdoms}}

500,000 BC
Circa 500,000 BC, in Lemuria, the Valkarthans, hailing from Valkarth in the Northern Land, were considered barbarians by the other Lemurians.

Pre-Cataclysmic Age
The barbarians of the Pre-Cataclysmic Age were the Picts, the Atlanteans, and the Lemurians.

Mu was a barbaric land.

Great Cataclysm
After the Great Cataclysm, the Atlanteans established on the main continent managed to retain vestiges of their former state of highly advanced barbarism, but clashed with the Picts, and five hundred after the Cataclysm, both barbaric, stone-age kingdoms had vanished.

Hyborian Age
The first of the Hyborian Kingdoms was Hyperborea, a barbaric kingdom.

The savages of Shem slowly emerged from barbarism through contacts with the Hyborians and the Stygians.

The golden-haired and blue-eyed people of Nordheim, the red-haired Vanir and yellow-haired Aesir, were barbarians.

Circa 10,000 BC, to the White Peacock, the isolationist faction of the court of Kusan, a kingdom of Khitai, all westerners, and explicitely Turan, were barbarians.

Antiquity
The Celts were a race of barbarians.

Modern Age
The nomadic Homo mermanus Atlantean tribe Skarka were considered barbarians by their fellow Atleanteans, and shunned and exiled.

Others

 * Starr the Slayer, ruler of Zardath, was born a barbarian.
 * Kronak the Barbarian...
 * Vandal the Barbarian...

Links and References

 * Barbarian at Wikipedia
 * Groups, lands and individuals described as "barbarians" in Marvel Comics