Re: A book report...

Quoting Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...>:

> On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 05:00:30 -0500, Jefferson Wilson
> <jeffwilson63@...> wrote:
>
> >     PM Hyperborean, Indian, and artificial languages
>
> That's a word with which I ought to be familiar, but I'm not. My brain
> keeps insisting it means either "having many trees" or "above the trees",
> neither of which make much sense. In typing this, though, it has become
> apparent that it might mean "from beyond the north".
>
> Am I even remotely in the right territory?
The Hyperboreans, according to ancient geographers, were a people living in the
far north, so your last interpretation is probably correct.

                                                Andreas

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