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by Micha F. Lindemans

A legendary people believed to live "beyond the north wind", at the edge of the world, in a land of unbroken sunshine. Here they enjoy continuous and perfect happiness. Apollo spends the winter among the Hyperboreans, and also the heroes Heracles and Perseus visited them.