Hyperborea (disambiguation)

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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".