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thule | thulean |

As a proper noun thule

is the ancestors of the canadian inuit.

As an adjective thulean is

of or relating to thule.

thule

English

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Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • The ancestors of the Canadian Inuit.
  • The northernmost location of the ancient world.
  • * 1844 , (Edgar Allan Poe), ”, page 41, first stanza, lines 5–6:
    • I have reached these lands but newly // From an ultimate dim Thule .
  • * 1969 , V.E. Watts (translator), (author), The (Consolation of Philosophy) , bk III, ch. v, page 89:
    • 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.
  • * ibidem , footnote 5:
    • 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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    References

    * (OED) (2nd ed., 1989), “ ?Thule”

    thulean

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or relating to Thule.