Riphʹean or Rhiphæʹan Rocks
. Any cold mountains in a north country. The fabled Rhiphæan mountains were in Scythia.
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.