hyperborean
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A Hyperborean wouldn’t be scared senseless up here, or worried about getting down.
From New York Times
“Neither disease nor bitter old age is mixed / in their sacred blood,” the poet Pindar wrote of the Hyperboreans in the fifth century B.C.
From The New Yorker
According to other accounts their home was among the Hyperboreans.
From Project Gutenberg
South of Greece, also near the great river Oceanus, dwelt another nation, just as happy and virtuous as the Hyperboreans,—the Ethiopians.
From Project Gutenberg
The nationality of the magicians quoted in the book may be remarked—they are Libyan, Syrian, Arab, Chald�an, Egyptian, and "Hyperborean."
From Project Gutenberg
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