supposedly made up of mountain after mountain covered in sheets of ice the author claimed that this island is what the italians called ultimathul the furthest most the or the edge of the world today it is widely accepted that the island the author is actually referring to is modern-day iceland there is a strong case for iceland being thule but we'll get into that a bit later historian norvija described this island as being deserted and likewise mythologists have reasoned that ultimate thule became deserted because the dwarves having won the island from the blue warriors disappeared underground into their cities set deep into the center of the earth where they remain to this day leaving the overground empty of civilization historian norvija was authored long after the picks arrived in great britain so this deserted image of thule certainly makes sense in context it's also been argued that the true location of thule is the norwegian island of smola in NUMBER_TOKEN a researcher from a german team of scientists stationed there wrote in a letter to a smaller journalist that quote about this old information there cannot be any doubt anymore you live on the mystic island of thule end quote today several ancient viking burial sites have been discovered on smola where vikings were buried with their most prized possessions and made ready for valhalla the mere fact that viking relics had been found on this desolate snow swap island does give way to anna komneno's claim that the vikings originated on a faraway island thought to be thule the inhabitants of thule were said to be strong northern warriors which the vikings undoubtedly were so if the vikings were in fact the ancient inhabitants of thu then it begs a question why did they leave the author of historia norvija claimed that ultimate thul was abandoned so what force could have been intimidating enough to drive the vikings out
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