In classic European literature, there are some accounts of an island named Thule. I was wondering whether there's some historical evidence for that, so I decided to ask AskHistorians.
So what I'm asking is who the greeks referred to when writing about the people of Thule and where it is. I know the island Thule doesn't exist, but I'd guess there is some place in the world (Norway, Iceland, etc) that would fir the description.
Dieter Lelgemann, from the technical university in Berlin, claims to be /almost/ certain that Thule is today's Smøla in nord Møre, Norway.
Pytheas, the Greek who did the sailing, talked about a substance which was neither land nor water, but still a rigid substance - most possibly, pack ice drifting from the North Pole. Considering that, he went pretty far north.
It could possibly be Iceland, I'm not certain wether it was inhabited at the time. English/Scottish minks had a monastery there, but was abandoned before the norse discovery and further colonization in the 800's.
Considering Pytheas allegedly wrote accounts of people threshing(? Sorry, not so good in English. Norwegian: treske) corn inside houses, though in very cold conditions, the highest possibility is an island off the coast of Norway.
Writing now, you could read into the possibility of it being the Faroe Islands.
http://old.dagogtid.no/nyhet.cfm?nyhetid=1456 (in Norwegian Nynorsk)