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A similar incident is found elsewhere in Norway in quite a different connection. Dasent, Fjeld, 222, from Asbjörnsen. Æschylus, in a tragedy now lost, seems to have referred to the Graiai as the warders of the Gorgons. Hyginus, quoting this, goes on to say that Perseus, having possessed himself of their one eye, threw it into the Tritonian marsh, and the warders being thus deprived of sight, he easily slew Medusa while stupefied with sleep. Poet. Astron. ii. 12 (Mythog. Lat. 445). Æschylus also, in the Prometheus, represents the Graiai as in the form of swans, dwelling in perpetual darkness on the Gorgonian plains. These are versions, so far as I remember, not found in any modern märchen.