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

The light hung over the hyperborean landscape as if loath to leave.

From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 by Various

When the cygnets are full-grown, and the frost makes its appearance upon the lakes and rivers of the hyperborean regions, the swans begin to shift southwards.

From The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire by Reid, Mayne

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

The Teutons are a wintry race and often take their summer joys in a hard, hyperborean fashion.

From Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life by Henry, Stuart Oliver