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
“I think I shall ask Professor Fortescue to allow me also to go to the Priory to pursue my art in peace and quietness; a truly hyperborean state, beyond the region of visitors!”
From The Daughters of Danaus by Mona Caird
"No; the model was a barbarian--some Gothic earl or other--Watichis or Witichas--who can remember these hyperborean names," said Kalistratos, as he peeled a peach.
From A Struggle for Rome, v. 1 by Felix Dahn
What then must be their appearance during the long, trying winter of these hyperborean regions?
From Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia by Maturin Murray Ballou
Taken as a whole, the remains of the mound-builders would seem to point to a hyperborean origin for both the people and their arts.
From Ancient Pottery of the Mississippi Valley Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-83, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 361-436 by William Henry Holmes
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