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“You had known otherwise, had you spent your youth on the northern frontiers of Cimmeria! Asgard lies to the north, and Vanaheim to the northwest of Cimmeria, and there is continual war along the borders.”   REH-The Phoenix on the Sword
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But the horror that paralyzed and destroyed Ascalante roused in the Cimmerian a frenzied fury akin to madness.   REH-The Phoenix on the Sword
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Conan put his back against the wall and lifted his ax. He stood like an image of the unconquerable primordial legs braced far apart, head thrust forward, one hand clutching the wall for support, the other gripping the ax on high, with the great...
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Conan was a Cimmerian by birth, one of those fierce moody hillmen who dwelt in their gloomy, cloudy land in the north.   REH-The Scarlet Citadel
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"Here is Cimmeria, where I was born. Here” “Asgard and Vanaheim,” Prospero scanned the map. “By Mitra, I had almost believed those lands to be fabulous.” Conan grinned and involuntarily touched the various scars on his dark face. “By...
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His barbaric soul was ablaze, and the chants of old heroes were singing in his ears.   REH-The Phoenix on the Sword
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I am adding the northern lands myself. Here is Cimmeria, where I was born.   REH-The Phoenix on the Sword
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I am adding the northern lands myself. Here is Cimmeria, where I was born.   REH-The Phoenix on the Sword
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"I did not dream far enough, Prospero. When King Numedides lay dead at my feet and I tore the crown from his gory head and set it on my own, I had reached the ultimate border of my dreams. I had prepared myself to take the crown, not to hold it. In...
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"Know, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Aryas, there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles...
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They stopped short. Conan faced them, not a naked man roused mazed and unarmed out of deep sleep to be butchered like a sheep, but a barbarian wide-awake and at bay, partly armored, and with his long sword in his hand.   REH-The Phoenix on the...
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“You had known otherwise, had you spent your youth on the northern frontiers of Cimmeria! Asgard lies to the north, and Vanaheim to the northwest of Cimmeria, and there is continual war along the borders.”   REH-The Phoenix on the Sword
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“You laugh greatly, drink deep and bellow good songs; though I never saw another Cimmerian who drank aught but water, or who ever laughed, or ever sang save to chant dismal dirges.” “Perhaps it’s the land they live in,” answered the king....
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“You laugh greatly, drink deep and bellow good songs, whereas I never saw another Cimmerian who drank aught but water, or who ever laughed, or ever sang save to chant dismal dirges.” “Perhaps it’s the land they live in,” answered Conan....
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