Scandinavia, ancient

Thulium (Tm, [Xe]4/I36.v2), name and symbol after Thule, an ancient name for Scandinavia. Discovered (1879) by P.T. Cleve. 

ORIGIN OF NAME Named for Thule, the Greek word for Scandinavia, the most northerly habitable land in ancient mythology. 

Thulium Tm 69 Per Theodor Cleve Sweden "Thule", an ancient name for Scandinavia... 

The cave paintings of Paleolithic man, the hieroglyphics chiseled into the crumbling antiquities of ancient Egypt, and the rune-covered artifacts of Scandinavia and Northern Europe were to preserve forever their activities and cultural heritage. Today, for the same purpose,... 

The element is named after Thule, the ancient name for Scandinavia. It is part of the yttria rare earths and is about as abundant as silver or cadmium. It was discovered in 1879 by Per Theodor Cleve. The silvery metallic element does not occur in elemental form naturally. It is very expensive and has few commercial uses, although synthetic radioactive isotopes have been used as an X-ray source. 

The Scythian population also migrated to Scandinavia and ultimately to Ireland. This began with the Assyrian captivity of the ten northern tribes of Israel in 741BCE to 721BCE. The Assyrians took twenty seven thousand people to the southern shore of the Caspian Sea, which borders on Northern Iran. Cuneiform tablets of Sargon discovered at the ancient Assyria capital of Khorsabad, north of Nineveh record ... 

Mosander also separated yttria, another earth thought to be a pure oxide, into three yttria, erbia, and terbia, all named for the Swedish town of Ytterby. Other workers found other earths including lutetia (named for the ancient name for Paris), holmia (for the Latin name for Stockholm), thulia (from Thule, was the earliest name for Scandinavia), and dysprosia (from the Greek dysprositos, which means hard to get... 

Thulium (after Thule, ancient Scandinavia) 1879 P.T. Cleve, Uppsala (Sweden)... 

Primitiveness only resides in the means that ancient man had to hand the development and refinement of the available technologies was complete. Stone tools, mined in a centralised industry, pre-finished and then distributed across a vast trading area of Europe and Scandinavia, were worked up into beautiful implements with an anthropomorphic quality lost to modern production. 

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