Now this mysterious country is confidently placed in the far north. This is already an axiom. It so happened that we try to carry everything sacred for us to the north - to the lands sacred for the Russian people.
But it is possible that the “north” was much farther south, and then the question arises about the time of the last glaciation, because the current “global warming” promoted by commercial organizations is just a return of the planet to the preglacial climate.
Be that as it may, the ancient authors said that the kingdom of the north wind of Boreas is Thrace:
Thrace was located in what is now Bulgaria. And since Ὑπερβορεία is "for" or "before (from the outside" of Borey, it turns out that Hyperborea is everything north of the Balkans and Bulgaria. Take a look at the map: this is a completely Slavic world:
And the most interesting thing is the climate of these lands, which is why Virgil described it in a very strange way. The Meotian Sea is the Azov:
An absolute description of the extreme north, but within the northern Black Sea region!
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Maybe Virgil heard some stories from travelers and transferred them to Azov, but it is possible that the Arctic climate was inherent in these lands even in antiquity? And then it is understandable why at that time the center of civilization was concentrated where it was still warm - around the Mediterranean Sea. With the melting of the glacier, humanity has re-populated Europe. After all, it is not for nothing that the Scandinavians have preserved the legend, how once the supreme god Odin brought his people to the northern lands from somewhere in the southeast.