Note 29 — III. THULE, PART OF GREAT BRITAIN
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Dr Bosworth (Anglo-Saxon Dict.) quotes Boethius (29, 11): “Oth thæt iland the we hatath Thyle, thæt is on tham northwest ende thisses middaneardes thær ne bith nawther ne on sumera niht, ne on wintra dæg” (To the island which we call Thule, that is on the north-west end of this middle earth, where there is neither night in summer nor day in winter). Cardale (1, 166) also: “Thonne be norðan Ibernia is thæt ylemede land thæt man hæt Thila” (Thence to the north of Ibernia is that island which men call Thila). See also Orosius, 1, 2.