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Definition of Hyperboreans
1. hyperborean [n] - See also: hyperborean
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hyperboreans
Literary usage of Hyperboreans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race by Karl Otfried Müller (1830)
"For this reason the hyperboreans could also be placed in another part, remote
from Scythia; still however they kept their original position in the north. ..."
2. The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race by Karl Otfried Müller (1830)
"For this reason the hyperboreans could also be placed in another part, remote
from Scythia; still however they kept their original position in the north. ..."
3. The Native Races of the Pacific States of North America by Hubert Howe Bancroft, Henry Lebbeus Oak, T. Arundel Harcourt, Albert Goldschmidt, Walter Mulrea Fisher, William Nemos (1874)
"hyperboreans. G KNK". u. ... distinctive groups; namely, I. hyperboreans, being
those nations whose territory lies north of the fifty-fifth parallel; II. ..."
4. The Cults of the Greek States by Lewis Richard Farnell (1907)
"... in later times, attached feathers to the human victim to break his fall: the
hyperboreans were long- lived according to the legend, and Pliny mentions ..."
5. The Gentleman's Magazine (1831)
"Diodorus may have, as he supposes, mixed up the accounts relative to both the
ancient and more modern hyperboreans. But there might have been some ..."
6. Memoirs of the Celts Or Gauls by Joseph Ritson, Joseph Frank (1827)
"I. Of the hyperboreans. ... which guard the gold of the country;1 and that the
hyperboreans are situate yet further, and extend themselves into the sea ..."
7. Herodotus by Herodotus (1812)
"As these men never returned, the hyperboreans were greatly offended, and took
the following method to prevent a repetition of this evil:—They carried to ..."
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