1. thule - Noun
2. Thule - Proper noun
The name given by ancient geographers to the northernmost part of the habitable world. According to some, this land was Norway, according to others, Iceland, or more probably Mainland, the largest of the Shetland islands; hence, the Latin phrase ultima Thule, farthest Thule.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIt seemed to me as if the stones sang, in the strangest voices, in the language of Ultima Thule. Robertson Davies
I have reached these lands but newly From an ultimate dim Thule - From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime, Out of SPACE - out of TIME. Edgar Allan Poe
By a route obscure and lonely, Haunted by ill angels only, Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT, On a black throne reigns upright, I have reached these lands but newly From an ultimate dim Thule - From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime, Out of SPACE - out of TIME. Edgar Allan Poe
4. Thule Inuit move into northern Greenland in the 12th century. Source: Internet
Aside from 279 Thule and five objects in unstable-looking orbits, Jupiter's gravity has swept everything out of this region. Source: Internet
A ten volume account (The Fifth Thule Expedition 1921-1924 (1946)) of ethnographic, archaeological and biological data was collected, and many artifacts are still on display in museums in Denmark. Source: Internet