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Re: A book report...

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Sunday, January 1, 2006, 18:41
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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