Padraic Colum (18811972). The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who
Lived before Achilles. 1921. Part II. The Return to Greece
Chapter V. Medea Comes to Circe THEY sailed up the River Ister
until they came to the Eridanus, that river across which no bird
can fly. Leaving the Eridanus they entered the Rhodanus, a river
that rises in the extreme north, where Night herself has her
habitation. And voyaging up this river they came to the Stormy
Lakes. A mist lay upon the lakes night and day; voyaging through
them the Argonauts at last brought out their ship upon the Sea
of Ausonia. It was Zetes and Calais, the sons of the North Wind,
who brought the Argo safely along this dangerous course. And to
Zetes and Calais Iris, the messenger of the gods, appeared and
revealed to them where Circes island lay. Deep blue water was
all around that island, and on its height a marble house was to
be seen. But a strange haze covered everything as with a veil.
As the Argonauts came near they saw what looked to them like
great dragonfli