Hyperborea (disambiguation)

Hyperborea (disambiguation)

In Greek mythology Hyperborea' is the northern land of the Hyperboreans, "beyond the North Wind".

The name has also been used for:
*the fictional continent in Clark Ashton Smith's fiction:see Hyperborean cycle.
*Hyperborea (Finnish folk music group)
*Hyperborea (album)
*H. P. Lovecraft used Hyperborea in his Cthulhu Mythos for his version of Atlantis.
*Clark Ashton Smith wrote a cycle of ten stories set in an ancient version of Greenland during a warm habitable phase: see Hyperborea (Clark Ashton Smith).
*"Hyperborea" is a track on the 1997 album Substrata by Biosphere
*"Hyperborea" is a track on the 2007 album A Natural Death by HORSE the Band
*The black metal band Bal-Sagoth wrote a rock epic, divided over three albums, called "The Splendor of a Thousand Swords Gleaming Beneath the Blazon of the Hyperboran Empire".


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