cimmerian

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John Milius's 1982 fantasy epic Conan the Barbarian cast the former Mr Olympia as Robert E Howard's unstoppable Cimmerian warrior.

From The Guardian • Jan. 18, 2013

Schwarzenegger is almost as much of a self-made man as the great Cimmerian himself.

From The Guardian • Jan. 18, 2013

He is stoic about the deaths of friends and relatives and accepts as "part of the game" the high possibility that he may be crushed, burned, suffocated or drowned in his own Cimmerian tomb.

From Time Magazine Archive

Before he even had time to yell, he dropped like a rock into the Cimmerian bowels of the glacier.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

The Cimmerian gave the same account of him that the princess had already heard from the Chinese and the Scythians.

From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by