Citations:Thule

English citations of Thule and Thulé

• 1844 June, Edgar Allan Poe, “Dream-Land” (first stanza) in The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe II: Poems and Tales, New York: Blakeman & Mason (1859), page 41:

  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.

• 1969, Victor Ernest Watts (translator), Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius (author), The Consolation of Philosophy, Penguin Books, book III, chapter v, page 89:

  For distant India tremble may // Beneath your mighty rule, // And Thulé⁵ bow beneath your sway // Far in the Northern sea, // But if to care and want you’re prey, // No king are you, but slave.

• ibidem, footnote 5:

  5. To the Romans Thulé, variously identified as Iceland or Mainland in the Shetland Isles, marked the extreme northern limit of the known world, just as India here stands for the farthest east.