Faery Places

Magh Ildathach (Plain of Many Colors) Magh Breac, Bregmag, Bregia (Speckled Plain) Meayll Breck, Maol Breac, Maith Breac, Béal a’ na breac (World of the Bright Shadow) Hy-Brasil (Portuguese: Glowing Ember Tree) Brí Léith (Fair Green)

A be find in raga lim
O fair-haired lady come with me
I tir n-ingnad hi fil rind
Into a marvellous land of music
Is and nad bi mui na tai,
There is neither mine nor thine
gela det and, dubai brai,
white teeth there, black eyebrows;
Is li sula lin ar sluag,
A delight to the eye is the crowd;
no is brece is dath sion and cech gruad:
every cheek the colour of foxglove:
cid cain deicsiu maigi Fail
though pleasant the Fal Plains
annam iar gnais maige mair.
after knowledge of the Great Plain.
Cid mesc lib coirm inse Fail,
Though intoxicating the Isle of Destiny’s ale,
is mescu coirm tire mair,
intoxicating ale of a great country
amra tire tir asbiur,
wonderland is the land I mention,
ni theit oac and re siun.
never goes a young man before an old man.
...Srotha teith millsi tar tir,
Sweet warm streams flow through the land,
rogu de mid ocus fin,
choice mead and wine;
doini delgnaidi, cen on,
matchless people without blemish,
combart cen pecead, cen col.
conception without sin, without lust.
Atchiam cach for each leth,
We see everyone on all sides,
ocus ni-conn acci nech;
and no one sees us;
temel imorbais adaim
it is the darkness of Adam’s trespass
do-don-archeil ar araim
that hides us from the multitudes.
–Tochmarc Etain: Wooing of Etain

(pron. MOY BREHK, môy bräg, MAW BRAYG, BREE LAY) A great plain full of music mentioned by Nemglan: Bird. Speckled, spotted with stones. It has dewdrops of honey, clear streams, silver and bronze chariots, old-yellow horses on the strand, crimson horses, others with sky-blue wool on their backs and many colors of the wind. Appears as an island in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Braganza, Spain once every seven years, to look at it is to die.

One portal is Brí Léith, County Longford, Ireland, another at Dowth: Dark Place in the Boyne Valley, Co. Meath. Two mountain rivers, Béalánabreac and Faill Mór at Maam, East County Galway are portals. There is an underground connection between Loch Corrib and the other great lake, Loch Mask. They say that there are 365 islands on the lake but be this true or false, there are hundreds of them there. Video Archdiocese of Tuamensis, See of Annaghdown. Cong: White Trout

Ruled by Midir Mac Daghda: Wren (pron. MY-tir, MY-ter: Medyr ap Indui Medyredydd) who is called Medeyrn beirdd: King of Bards. He is handsome, with long golden hair and blue eyes that shine like the flame of a candle [others say gray]. He wears a green cloak, purple dress with silver brooches in the shape of lions & serpents, red tunic, gold brooches on each shoulder, golden crown and carries a five prong spear.

He was hit by a hazel tree twig and lost sight in one eye, then the healer god Dian Cecht: Strong Plough placed the healed eye back in its socket. He goes dreoilín: wren hunting. Midir’s three cows, magic cauldron and daughter Blathnat: Flower were taken by King Conchobar of Ulster’s Red Branch Army.

In Tochmarc Étain: Wooing of Etain He lost a chess game twice to Eochaid Airem and gave him fifty brown horses for game one. Losing game two had him perform four feats: Moin Lamraide/Mom Laraide road: Magh Mhór, clearing Midhe of stones, covering Tethra: Sea district with rushes, and covering Darbrech district in Yn Eearvee: Westmeath [¿Two Speckled Trouts?] with trees.

Midir won the third game and kissed the goddess Édaín: The Emerald Goddess When Eochaid Airem came to retrieve her on Halloween all he saw were two swans high up in the air, linked together by a golden chain. Midir keeps her in a grianon: sunhouse for part of the year sustained on flowers.

Óengus: Youth Son of Bees made her a beautiful palace with all the colors of the rainbow with four windows. To the west is a forest of golden apples, oak, and pine. The north window is a white mountain, the west a plain with gleaming lakes and the east a white sea. Midir’s jealous wife Fuamach: Sonorousness turned her into a dragonfly three times: each time she visited.[Worlds List]

Midir’s Brothers: Bodb Dearg: Dangerous Red, Cermait: Honey Mouth Yew, Coll: Hazel, Dían Cécht: Ploughman, Digon: Enough, Cathbad, Gralon: Full Rank, Grannus: Sun, Tristan: Oak (6, 23, 46, 47, 58. 75, 88, 97, 123. 133, 150, 183, 253)