#Niamh Cinn Óir

[secretswiftymarvelfan]

🍀Happy St Patrick’s Day!🍀

Hope you all enjoy the day and take the opportunity to learn about Irish Culture because it’s so magical!

And I thought it would be nice as part of St Patricks Day to talk about the Origin and Story behind the name I use on this blog!

Niamh - Pronounced Neev

It means Brightness and Radiance

According to Irish Legend she is known as Niamh Cinn-Óir, meaning Niamh of Golden Hair. She was a beautiful princess, strong, and mysterious and has links with magic and faeries. She is also the daughter of Manannán mac Lir, god of the sea, and rides a magical white horse called Enbarr.

She rules over the land of Tír na nÓg (the land of eternal youth), and the story in which she features most is “Oisín in Tír na nÓg” from the Ossianic/Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology.

According to Irish legend, Niamh spotted Oisín from across the sea, a young warrior who was a part of the Fianna.

They swiftly fell in love, and she whisked him off to the land of Tír na nÓg so they could be young and in love together forever. They lived happily for 300 years in the faerie land.

After some time, however, a small part of Oisín longed to see Ireland and his family again. Niamh loaned Oisín her horse, with the warning that, should his feet touch Irish soil, he would never be able to return to Tír na nÓg.

That Irish legend states that upon his return, Oisín found his childhood home covered in moss and his family long buried. Some men in his village informed him that the Fianna were only childhood stories told to them by their grandfathers.

 Oisín offered to help them as they struggled to move a stone and fell from his horse in the process. The minute he touched the ground, he aged the 300 years he had spent with Niamh in Tír na nÓg, and their love story had a tragic end.

In the medieval version of the story from Irish history, Niamh is the daughter of the King of Munster, Aengus Tírech of ancient Ireland. She elopes with Oisín to Ulster, where they spent six weeks together. Tragically, the story ends with her death as her father arrives with an army in tow.

I absolutely love this legend and it definitely helped inspire the feel I wanted for the reader in The Demigod From Asgard 🥰

#happy st patricks day

[mh-dreamscape]

🌊🌊 Niamh Cinn-Óir Descendant at Monster High!! 🌊🌊

Last semester, I had recently gotten into Irish Folklore/Myths, specifically the story of Niamh and Oisín. I don’t believe I’m Irish, so if I get anything wrong or this is weird, please let me know! I’ll immediately take her down! I just thought she’d be a cool concept for Monster High since it delves into other mythologies! I specifically made her as a G3 character, but she could be from other Gens too! Facts about her and their brief story are below:

Niamh Cinn-Óir can be depicted as the goddess of the sea, fate, death, and is the daughter of the King of the Land of Youth (Tír an nÓg). The most well-known story of her tells the tale of her venturing to Ireland across the Atlantic Ocean. This is where she came across Oisín and the Fianna tribe on the Irish shores. They both instantly fell in love and Niamh asked Oisín to come with her back to the Land of Youth to get married. He agreed and they lived there joyfully for three years, eventually having 2 sons and a daughter.

Oisín, however, grew homesick and wished to leave this realm to visit his family back in Ireland. Niamh begged him not to leave, but eventually let him by giving him her white horse to cross the water. She warned him that she wouldn’t be able to protect him outside of the magical realm if he stepped foot on the soil. When Oisín reached Ireland, he couldn’t find his tribe and found out from the locals that the Fianna Tribe left hundreds of years ago. He ended up finding out that 300 years had passed in Ireland during the time he lived in the Land of Youth.

Oisín ran into a group of Irishmen struggling to move a large rock and lent down from the horse to help them. Sadly, he fell off and touched the soil, immediately turning into a withered old man. He ended up passing a few days later on that very same Irish soil, never to see Niamh again on the human plane.

Notes on Doll:

Once again, if I got anything wrong or this is weird, please let me know and I’ll take her down! I just thought she’d be a cool addition to Monster High and she was more of a “passion project” than an OC! I hope you guys like her!

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[duskfeather]

ride on

see you

i could never go with you no matter how i wanted to

#this is like 1/5th of a horse and i never want to draw a full one thanks #this is very vaguely niamh cinn óir sooooo. enjoy

[viridializard]

Gailge ask? All I remember how to say is “I am a man and she is a woman”

That is not much less than most Irish people can say to be honest.

Anways, from that I thought of

Ór

Which is gold, but I always think of Niamh Cinn Óir who is a mythological figure who steals away a man to the land of eternal youth because they fell in love at first sight <3 romance at it’s finest

#ask