barbarian

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When Augustine died in 430, the Vandals, a barbarian people who had crossed the Rhine decades earlier and already fought their way through Gaul and Iberia, had reached the gates of Hippo.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

Coach Tom Flores fined the 6-foot-8 barbarian $1,000, and Philadelphia coach Dick Vermeil said he would have been harsher.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2025

The barbarian monarchs of the West sent hordes east—a counterinvasion we call the First Crusade.

From Slate • Dec. 15, 2024

Alan Yuhas interviewed game developers, actors and players across the Forgotten Realms, including an elf sorcerer, a half-elf druid, a tiefling barbarian and a githyanki fighter.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2023

Yes, we fled to the east, into the Bonecruel Mountains and out into the fire-swept Plateau of Drume, but we left because we were not prepared for a barbarian horde to attack on griffin-back.”

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin