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Hyperborean

The Hyperboreans lived beyond the north wind (Boreas) and lived for a thousand years. This Greek, half-myth was embellished by returning sailors who spoke of an idyllic race beyond the rip-tides of the Mediterranean. The Hyperboreans lived beyond Scythia, which is, curiously, mentioned in the Declaration of Arbroath, 1320 as the original homeland of the Scots. (...they journeyed from Greater Scythia by way of the Tyrrhenian Sea...)