What is "hyperboreans"

Usage examples of "hyperboreans".

The Land of the Hyperboreans was, however, definitely thought by the ancients to exist somewhere in the far north.

Apollo, that are borne along by the eddies, the countless tears that he shed aforetime when he came to the sacred race of the Hyperboreans and left shining heaven at the chiding of his father, being in wrath concerning his son whom divine Coronis bare in bright Lacereia at the mouth of Amyrus.