The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ultima \Ul"ti*ma\, a. [L., fem. ultimus last.] Most remote; furthest; final; last.
Ultima ratio [L.], the last reason or argument; the last resort.
Ultima Thule. [L.] See Thule.
WordNet
n. the geographical region believed by ancient geographers to be the northernmost land in the inhabited world [syn: Thule]
Wikipedia
Ultima Thule ( Latin for "Farthest North") is a Swedish rock band. Their style is based on what they call Vikingarock ("Viking rock"), which combines occasional folk melodies with rock, mixed with Oi!, street punk and Teddy Boy. Some of their lyrics are versions of poems and traditional songs by Evert Taube, such as "Änglamark". They have also released several versions of Sweden's national anthem, " Du gamla, Du fria'". They have been described as a white power band, though ethnomusicologist Benjamin R. Teitelbaum disputes this classification.
För Fäderneslandet is Ultima Thule's most popular album, selling more than 100,000 copies. Vikingabalk, their second best selling album, went gold with more than 80,000 copies sold.
Ultima Thule is an Estonian rock-band. It has existed since 1986. The leader of the group has been the guitarist and (later) singer Riho Sibul. Ultima Thule has been one of the most influential Estonian bands of the 1980s and 1990s. Their style has been characterized as a blend of blues rock with witty lyrics and influences of Estonian folk music.
The original singer of the band, Tõnis Mägi has in the 2000s mainly chosen a solo career as well as the former drummer Peeter Jõgioja (featuring also in 2004 Eurovision song contest with the group Neiokõsõ).
Ultima Thule refers to any distant place beyond the known world.
Ultima Thule may also refer to:
- Ultima Thule (Estonian band)
- Ultima Thule (Swedish band)
- Ultima Thule Ambient Music, a radio show
- Ultima Thule, an album by Armia
- Ultima Thule, an album by Ostara
- Ultima Thule, an album by UMO Jazz Orchestra
- Ultima Thule, a single by Tangerine Dream, included in several reissues of their album Alpha Centauri
- Ultima Thule, a poetry collection by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Ultima Thule, a volume of the novel The Fortunes of Richard Mahony by Henry Handel Richardson
- "Ultima Thule", a short story by Vladimir Nabokov
- Ultima Thule, a set of glassware designed by Tapio Wirkkala
- Starfire Burning Upon the Ice-Veiled Throne of Ultima Thule, an album by British symphonic black metal band Bal-Sagoth
- " Ultima Thulée", an album by Blut Aus Nord
Usage examples of "ultima thule".
Also, there are vast areas, like rural America, that are an unmapped ultima Thule to those who own the corporations that own the media that spend billions of dollars to take polls in order to elect their lawyers to high office.
They left the Major striding off in the direction of Ultima Thule, and turned the corner into the Trindale road.
Mrs Midgeholme had conceived the pretty idea of calling the bungalow Ultima Thule.
As you surely know, various authors have identified Avalon as the Garden of the Hes-perides or as Ultima Thule, or as the Colchis of the Golden Fleece.
Now that I'm back from Ultima Thule, she'll give up the priesthood and we'll settle down and raise a lot of fat babies.
I opened a richly illuminated volume that, by its style, seemed to me to come from the monasteries of Ultima Thule.
This fine vintage came to us courtesy of Ultima Thule Distilleries, the old firm.
Sukey had been enthralled by the notion of a hollow Earth lit by a small central sun, a land of tranquillity and invincible goodness, peopled by dwarfish gentlefolk possessing all wisdom and delight Had not the ancients told tales of subterranean Asar, Avalon, the Elysian Fields, Ratmansu, and Ultima Thule?