Hyperbore'ans

Hyperbore'ans (i.e. dwellers beyond Boreas or the North Wind), a name given by the ancients to a mythical people, whose land was generally supposed to lie in the extreme northern parts of the world. As the favourites of Apollo they enjoyed an earthly paradise, a bright sky, a perpetual spring, a fruitful land, unbroken peace, and everlasting youth and health. In the modern science of anthropology the term Hyperboreans is sometimes used to designate certain peoples, such as the Tchukchis, Aino, Kamchadales, &c., who dwell in the north-east of Asia and the north-west and north of North America, and who cannot be classed either with the Indians or the peoples of the Asiatic plateau.