Thule - What does it mean?
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The ancestors of the Canadian Inuit.
The northernmost location of the ancient world.
* 1844 , (Edgar Allan Poe), ”, page 41, first stanza, lines 5–6:
* 1969 , V.E. Watts (translator), (author), The (Consolation of Philosophy) , bk III, ch. v, page 89:
* ibidem , footnote 5:
thule
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(en proper noun)- I have reached these lands but newly // From an ultimate dim Thule .
- For distant India tremble may // Beneath your mighty rule, // And Thulé ? bow beneath your sway // Far in the Northern sea, // But if to care and want you’re prey, // No king are you, but slave.
- 5. To the Romans Thulé , variously identified as Iceland or Mainland in the Shetland Isles, marked the extreme northern limit of the known world, just as India here stands for the farthest east.
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* (OED) (2nd ed., 1989), “?Thule”