Editing Thule (section)

===Modern literature===

[[Edgar Allan Poe]]'s poem "[[Poems by Edgar Allan Poe#Dream-Land (1844)|Dream-Land]]" (1844) begins with the following stanza: {{poemquote|By a route obscure and lonely,
Haunted by ill angels only,
Where an Eidolon, named Night,
On a black throne reigns upright.
I have reached these lands but newly
From an ultimate dim Thule –
From a wild weird clime, that lieth, sublime,
Out of Space – out of Time.}}

John Henry Wilbrandt Stuckenberg wrote on the subject in 1885: {{Blockquote|
What is the mind’s ''ultima Thule''? What substance must be regarded as first, and therefore as the seed of the universe? What is the eternal Something, of which the temporal is but a manifestation? Matter? Spirit? Matter and Spirit? Something behind both and from which they have sprung, neither Matter nor Spirit, but their Creator? Or is there in reality neither Matter nor Spirit, but only an agnostic Cause of the phenomena erroneously assigned by us to body and mind?

After spending many years in profoundly investigating this problem, I have at last struck bottom. Unhesitatingly and unconditionally I adopt materialism, and declare it to be the sole and all-sufficient explanation of the universe. This affords the only thoroughly scientific system; and nowhere but in its legitimate conclusions can thought find suitable resting-place, the heart complete satisfaction, and life a perfect basis. Unless it accepts this system, philosophy will be but drift-wood, instead of the stream of thought whose current bears all truth. Materialism, thorough, consistent, and fearless, not the timid, reserved, and half-hearted kind, is the hope of the world.|''The Final Science: or Spiritual Materialism'' (1885) by John Henry Wilbrandt Stuckenberg (1835–1903), p.&nbsp;6<ref>{{cite book|author=Stuckenberg, John Henry Wilbrandt|date=1885|url=https://archive.org/stream/thefinalscience00stucuoft#page/8/mode/1up |title=The Final Science: or Spiritual Materialism|page=6|publisher=New York : Funk & Wagnalls}}</ref>}}

[[Kelly Miller (scientist)|Kelly Miller]], addressing the Hampton Alumni Association in 1899, explained that

"Civilization may be defined as the sum total of those influences and agencies that make for knowledge and virtue. This is the goal, the ''ultima Thule,'' of all human strivings. The essential factors of civilization are knowledge, industry, culture, and virture."<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.loc.gov/resource/lcrbmrp.t2116/?sp=6|title=The Primary Needs of the Negro Race: An Address delivered before the Alumni Association of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute|last=Miller|first=Kelly|publisher=Howard University|year=1899|location=Washington, DC|pages=6}}</ref>

[[The Fortunes of Richard Mahony|''Ultima Thule'']] is the title of the 1929 novel by [[Henry Handel Richardson]], set in colonial [[Australia]].

[[Hal Foster]]'s protagonist [[Prince Valiant]] gets his title from being the son of Aguar, exiled king of Thule who has taken refuge in the [[The Fens|Fens]] during the days of [[King Arthur]]. Foster places this kingdom of Thule on the Norwegian mainland, near [[Trondheim]].

"Ultima Thule" is a short story written by author [[Vladimir Nabokov]] and published in ''New Yorker'' magazine on April 7, 1973.<ref>{{Cite magazine | url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1973/04/07/ultima-thule | title=Ultima Thule| magazine=The New Yorker| date=1973-03-31}}</ref>

Ultima Thule is mentioned in ''[[The Name of the Rose]]'' by [[Umberto Eco]] in reference to an illuminated manuscript that the narrator/character Adso sees when he explores the library labyrinth alone at the end of the third day. "I opened a richly illuminated volume that, by its style, seemed to me to come from the monasteries of Ultima Thule."<ref>[[Eco, Umberto]]. [[The Name of the Rose]]. Translated by William Weaver, First edition., Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983. p.240</ref>

[[Jorge Luis Borges]] uses the classic Latin phrase "ultima Thule" in his poem A Reader.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.poesi.as/jlb0726.htm|title = Un Lector}}</ref> He uses the phrase to connect the study of Latin in his younger years to his more recent efforts to read the Icelandic poet [[Snorri Sturluson]].

Bernard Cornwell references Thule in his novel ''The Lords of the North'', the third book in the series ''The Last Kingdom''. The character Uhtred of Bebbanburg calls it, "that strange land of ice and flame".

Thule is mentioned in ''[[Asterix and the Chieftain's Daughter]]''.

[[Cassandra Clare]]'s ''[[The Shadowhunter Chronicles]]'', features an alternate dimension called Thule.

Thule is the name of an artificial polar island in [[Sue Burke]]'s sci-fi novel Dual Memory.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.tor.com/2023/06/01/book-review-dual-memory-by-sue-burke/ | title=Dual Memory Confirms Sue Burke as a Modern SFF Master | date=June 2023 }}</ref>