Nemedya Efsanesi Kimmeryalı Conan

Şunu bilin ki Prensim,
Kabaran okyanusların Atlantis’i ve onun görkemli kentlerini yutmasından hemen sonra, Dünya’da o güne kadar görülmemiş bir çağ başlamıştı.
Aryas’ın oğullarının doğduğu bu çağda, Dünya üzerindeki imparatorluklar ve uygarlıklar, gökteki yıldızların mavi pırıltıları kadar dağınık fakat belirgindi.
İşte bu sıralarda Kimmeryalı Conan geldi. Çelik bilekli elinden kılıcını hiç bırakmayan bu kara saçlı, şahin gözlü yiğit, tüm imparatorlukları sandallı ayağının altında çiğnemek istiyordu.
... bir Nemedya efsanesinden.

       The Hyborian Age is a fictional period within the artificial mythology created by Robert E. Howard, in which the sword and sorcery tales of Conan the Barbarian are set.
The word “Hyborian” is derived from the legendary northern land of the ancient Greeks, Hyperborea, and is rendered as such in the earliest draft of Howard’s essay “The Hyborian Age.” Howard described the Hyborian Age taking place sometime after the sinking of Atlantis and before the beginning of recorded history. Most later editors and adaptors such as L. Sprague de Camp and Roy Thomas placed the Hyborian Age around 10,000 B.C. More recently, Dale Rippke proposed that the Hyborian Age should be placed further in the past, around 32,500 B.C., prior to the beginning of the last ice age. Rippke’s date, however, has since been disputed by Jeffrey Shanks who argues for the more traditional placement at the end of the ice age.
        The reasons behind the invention of the Hyborian Age were perhaps commercial: Howard had an intense love for history and historical dramas; however, at the same time, he recognized the difficulties and the time-consuming research needed in maintaining historical accuracy. By conceiving a timeless setting – a vanished age – and by carefully choosing names that resembled our history, Howard avoided the problem of historical anachronisms and the need for lengthy exposition.
Although it is not represented in Howard’s library, nor alluded to in his papers and correspondence, Patrice Louinet has suggested that Howard’s conception of the Hyborian Age may have been heavily influenced by Bulfinch’s Mythology, which acted as a catalyst that enabled Howard to “coalesce into a coherent whole his literary aspirations and the strong physical, autobiographical elements underlying the creation of Conan.”