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The term "Hyperborean" still sees some jocular contemporary use in reference to groups of people who live in a cold climate. Under the Library of Congress Classification System , the letter subclass PM includes "Hyperborean Languages", a catch-all category that refers to all the linguistically unrelated languages of peoples living in Arctic ...
In Greek mythology, Abaris the Hyperborean (Ancient Greek: Ἄβαρις Ὑπερβόρειος, Ábaris Hyperbóreios), son of Seuthes (Σεύθης), was a legendary sage, healer, and priest of Apollo known to the Ancient Greeks. He was supposed to have learned his skills in his homeland of Hyperborea, which he fled during a plague.
Articles relating to Hyperborea, the far northern part of the known world in Greek mythology.Later writers disagreed on the existence and location of the Hyperboreans, with some regarding them as purely mythological, and others connecting them to real-world peoples and places in Northern Europe (e.g. Britain, Scandinavia, or Siberia).
Zingara is also Italian for "Gypsy woman"; this may mean that Howard mixed up the source names of Zingara and Zamora, with Zingara originally meant to apply to the Roma kingdom, and Zamora to the Spanish kingdom. Zuagir (tribe) The name is perhaps derived from a combination of Tuareg and Uyghur. Main influence is the Bedouins.
Hyperborean cycle, a cycle of ten fantasy stories by Clark Ashton Smith; Hyperborea, a collection of Clark Ashton Smith's Hyperborean stories; Hyperborea, a nation in the fictional world of Conan the Barbarian created by Robert E. Howard, see also the Hyborian Age for Howard's fictional version of ancient Eurasian history.
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The Hyperborean cycle is a series of short stories by Clark Ashton Smith that take place in the fictional prehistoric setting of Hyperborea. Smith's cycle takes cues from his friends, H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard and their works. The cycle combines cosmic horror with an Iron Age setting.
The Hyperborean is a Canadian comedy horror science fiction film, directed by Jesse Thomas Cook and released in 2023. [1] The film centres on the wealthy owner of a whisky distillery company who summons his family to help recover a case of whisky that the company lost over 100 years ago when the ship foundered in the Canadian Arctic, but unwittingly unleash an ice mummy because a dead sailor's ...