Thule (thule)

[L. Thule, Thyle, geographical critics, has been in constant use by poets and others as designating some unknown, far-distant, northern, or purely mythical region, or even some goal, not nece arily geographical, sought to be attained. This use of Thule and Ultima Thule runs through the literature of all the cultivated languages of Europe. Where the Northern Ocean, in vast whirls, Boils round the naked melancholy isles Of furthest Thule . This ultimate dim Thule . Thomson, Autumn. Poe, Dream-Land. In