hyperborean
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Photograph: Apic/Getty In Barry Lopez's haunting, poetic book about the hyperborean realms, Arctic Dreams, there's a magnificent story about an Inuit family who are washed out to the seas on a calved iceberg.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 31, 2013
Fortunately, the period is past when our admiration for hyperborean poetry needed to be justified by its similarity with the classics.
From Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations by Therese Albertine Louise von Jacob Robinson
For example, Amable Grignon, a Green Bay trader, wintered in 1818 at Lac qui Parle in Minnesota, the next year at Lake Athabasca, and the third in the hyperborean regions of Great Slave Lake.
From The Character and Influence of the Indian Trade in Wisconsin by Frederick Jackson Turner
It was a choice little harbor, a good way north of the Arctic Circle,—fairly within the realm of hyperborean barrenness,—very near the northernmost border of civilized settlement.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. by Various
Then the real difficulty of the Straits will be faced, and probably—as Russia has overcome the difficulties of the Baltic—so will the Canadian Northwest overcome the difficulties of this hyperborean sea.
From The Canadian Commonwealth by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
