][2]"Septentrional" is more or less synonymous with the term "boreal", derived from Boreas, a Greek god of the North Wind.
"[4] Writing of Johann Georg Keyßler in 1758, Thomas Gray distinguished between "Celtic" and "septentrional" antiquities.
[5] Thomas Percy actively criticised the blurring of the Celtic and the Germanic in the name of the "septentrional", while at the same time Ossianism favoured it.
[6] James Ingram in his inaugural lecture of 1807 called George Hickes "the first of septentrional scholars" for his pioneering lexicographical work on Anglo-Saxon.
[8] In France, the term septentrional refers to the Northern stretch of the Côtes du Rhône AOC winemaking region.
It includes the eight crus: Côte Rôtie, Condrieu, Château-Grillet, Hermitage, Saint-Joseph, Crozes-Hermitage, Cornas and Saint-Péray.