>So don't limit your sources, but recognize the likely diversity of the
>term Orlanthi is as great as the term 'barbarian'
>
>This is an entertaining summary of these kind of sources, aimed I
>suspect at the gamer.
>
>http://www.wizardrealm.com/barbarians/history.html
Or possibly the US schoolchild. It reminds me of school history in its generalisations and inaccuracies.
It treats as a single culture various groups of people stretching across an entire continent and over a thousand years of history.
I'll not go into the details of errors other than to mention the women in modern bikinies!
-- Donald Oddy http://www.grove.demon.co.uk/
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