10-17-2011, 09:58 AM
Theo,
I think you have a good point. Always an unconventional character in every unit. I'm lucky-- I portray a barbarian. And as we all think we know (nuk, nuk, nuk), those barbarians were so backward they had not the where-with-all to shave.
Kidding aside, we are now finding scissors, tweezers, even ear-spoons, in barbarian graves, some predating the time-period we're talking about. Every acute man, in all cultures, had a predisposition to stride beyond the unkempt. Beards were trimmed, probably carefully. Otherwise, these guys would have looked like ZZ Top. :roll:
I think you have a good point. Always an unconventional character in every unit. I'm lucky-- I portray a barbarian. And as we all think we know (nuk, nuk, nuk), those barbarians were so backward they had not the where-with-all to shave.
Kidding aside, we are now finding scissors, tweezers, even ear-spoons, in barbarian graves, some predating the time-period we're talking about. Every acute man, in all cultures, had a predisposition to stride beyond the unkempt. Beards were trimmed, probably carefully. Otherwise, these guys would have looked like ZZ Top. :roll:
Alan J. Campbell
member of Legio III Cyrenaica and the Uncouth Barbarians
Author of:
The Demon's Door Bolt (2011)
Forging the Blade (2012)
"It's good to be king. Even when you're dead!"
Old Yuezhi/Pazyrk proverb
member of Legio III Cyrenaica and the Uncouth Barbarians
Author of:
The Demon's Door Bolt (2011)
Forging the Blade (2012)
"It's good to be king. Even when you're dead!"
Old Yuezhi/Pazyrk proverb