Chapter Three Kings of Cologne to Thule of T by Brewer's Readers Handbook

that “the days there are at the equinoxes twenty-four hours long.” Generally supposed to be the Faroe Islands. Perhaps it was Iceland.

(No place has a day of twenty-four hours long at either equinox; but anywhere beyond either polar circle the day is twenty-four hours long at one of the solstices.)

Suidas says it was so called from Thulus, its most ancient king.

(Antonius Diogenês, a Greek, wrote a romance on “The Incredible Things beyond Thulê” (Ta huper Thoulen Apista), which has furnished the basis of many subsequent tales. The work is not extant, but Photius gives an outline of its contents in his Bibliotheca.)