in howard's poem "cimmeria" the region is described as a rugged wilderness, hilly, probably mountainous, heavily forested, and often cold and overcast. based on the hyborian map as it overlaps a modern map of europe, there was likely a mountain range along cimmeria's western border. howard confirms this in "the hyborian age": "...the ocean flowed around the mountains of western cimmeria to form the north sea; these mountains became the islands later known as england, scotland and ireland..."