/ · 1894 Brewer’s · R · Riphean or Rhiphæan Rocks
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Any cold mountains in a north country. The fabled Rhiphæan mountains were in Scythia.
“Cold Riphean rocks, which the wild Russ
Believes the stony girdle of the world.”
Thomson: Autumn.
The poet here speaks of the Weliki Camenypoys (great stone girdle) supposed by the early Russians to have girded the whole earth.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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