Golden Fleece

( The ), the fleece of the ram which transported Phryxos to Colchis. When Phryxos arrived there, he sacrificed the ram and gave the fleece to King Æētês, who hung it on a sacred oak. It was stolen by Jason, in his “Argonautic expedition.” The Golden Fleece of the North. Fur and peltry of Siberia is so called.