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 Caird, Mona

Land of a thousand sea-kings' graves,— Those tameless spirits of the past, Fierce as their subject arctic waves, Or hyperborean blast,— Though polar billows round thee foam, I love thee!—thou wert once my home.

From The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland by Symonds, W. S. (William Samuel)

He was a Shetlander—a sort of shaggy hyperborean giant with a forbidding face, an appraising, contemplative manner, and many nails in his mouth.

From Romance by Conrad, Joseph

It is not merely Western and among Indians, it is hyperborean and among Esquimaux.

From On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada by Ralph, Julian