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Hyperboreans

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Hyperboreans (hī'pərbôr`ēənz, –bôrē`ənz), in Greek mythology, people dwelling in a state of perfect bliss in the Far North who were Apollo worshipers.
Hyperboreans
fabulous people living beyond North Wind, traditionally near North Pole. [Rom. Myth.: Zimmerman, 132]
See : Coldness
Hyperboreans
blissful race lived beyond the North Wind in a region of perpetual Spring. [Gk. Myth.: Brewer Dictionary, 476]
See : Joy
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of the well-horsed Hyperboreans -- whom Earth the all- nourishing bare far off by the tumbling streams of deep-flowing Eridanus.
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