How can you understand a people of whom it has been said, truthfully, that they have one foot in their own land and one foot in Thule?
A 4th century bce Greek explorer, Pytheas, described ice-covered islands that he found. The name he gave them was Thule.
Hitler co-opted the legendary island as the birthplace of the Aryans, and made it into a racist Promised Land.
(Pytheas found the islands off the northwest coast of Britain, and in 2010, scientists confirmed that it may have been the Norwegian island of Smola).
