Sounds good to me. Just think of the historical findings that have been made since I read my father’s Conan novels in the early to mid 70,s. No doubt alot has been learned since then.
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I agree with this in general! (At least up until the point about ‘Norse’ - as I don’t think the peoples living in Scandinavia at the time could be considered Norse in that same way that most of Europe can’t be considered to -yet- be the cultures that would eventually develop in them.)
It is a curiosity however that despite Howard’s setting being in the distant past, his geography is what lays ahead for earth in the distant future - the Earth (Or specifically Europe/Africa/Asia) 50-60million years in the future looks a lot the Hyborian era!
Maybe we should be reading Conan as tales of the far future, where out own societies lay in the distant and murky background cultures credited with strange magics and super-science.
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“Nordic” would have been a better term, however, there is a fair amount of direct archaeologic connection between the Corded Ware and Battle Axe cultures into the Jastorf, so perhaps Proto-Norse.
As far as where things are headed…
I’m not so optimistic as to think we may move into anything as benign as the Hyborian Age. There are a few landmass shifts that may move in that direction, but the greater inland water bodies are somewhat unlikely unless there are drastic and deliberate efforts in that direction.
However, another human population bottle neck is not at all unlikely, and those are always useful for creating a clean break from the world of now and mythical history. So that principle is very sound.
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I for one would be surprised if humans (as we are now at least) exist in 50 millions years - I would rather hope we’ve colonized a junk of galaxy and begun to evolve into something geater. But If we are, and the costlines resembled Hyboria to the point they are theorized to I wouldn’t be too surprised by inland seas- those mountains are going to have drainage basins somewhere, after all- and whose to say how those will shape up.
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