His love, Niamh of the Golden Hair, gave him a horse and told him not to dismount when he returned to his homeland after 300 years.
His love, Niamh of the Golden Hair, gave him a horse and told him not to dismount when he returned to his homeland after 300 years. When he fell, the steed disappeared, and he became old and gray-haired according to a legend that also has him meeting St. Patrick. Considered the greatest poet of Ireland, he was raised in the shape of a deer by his mother, Sadb. FTP, name this son of Fionn Mac Cumhail whose name is sometimes attached to the Fenian Cycle and whose work was supposedly translated by James MacPherson.
His love, Niamh of the Golden Hair, gave him a horse and told him not to dismount when he returned to his homeland after 300 years.
{Oisín} or {Ossian}