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The Sword of the Barbarians is a sword with fantastic connotations. It reminds us of the swords of the tribes of Slavic, Germanic and Frankish origin that devastated Europe between the 3rd and 8th centuries, eventually conquering Rome itself.
Called Barbarians for their uncivilized customs, this term came to have the characteristics of their wild and rude nature.
In a world where force was the law, their swords were robust and powerful, a sign of authority and respect.
This group of tribes and peoples ruled in a fragmented Europe lacking a strong political organization until the beginning of the Carolingian Empire.
The Romans gave the name barbarians to the peoples who invaded the Roman Empire and, in general, to all the foreigners in the border regions with the Empire. Specifically, they classified them into three groups:
The yellow race: misers and Huns. The white Slavic race: Vendos, in what is now Poland, Sarmatians, on the Danube and Alanos, on the shores of the Black Sea. The non-Slavic white race, who were the Gauls who inhabited what is now France, Belgium, western Switzerland and the areas of Holland and Germany west of the Rhine, as well as a still poorly determined strip of the latter country, on the right bank of the river. The Greeks called them Keltoi (Celts), while the Romans nicknamed them “Gauls” and their large region, Gaul.
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