An Chraobh Airgid

Person

Bran mac Febail

Bran mac Febail

The voyager who woke with a silver branch.

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Music lulled him to sleep, and he woke to find a silver branch in white blossom beside him. A woman sang to him of Emain, the island of apples, and the branch sprang from his hand into hers. He sailed west to find it.

Kin and bonds

In the tales

  • The Voyage of Máel Dúin He set out to avenge his father and found the killers’ island in the dark. Then a wind took him, and for three years and seven months the ocean showed him wonders.
  • The Voyage of Bran Music puts Bran to sleep, and he wakes beside a silver branch in blossom. He is gone a year, he thinks. At home he is already an old story.

See also

  • An tSrúibh Stroove (Shrove), Inishowen. Where Bran came home and found himself an old story.
  • Mongán The son Manannán foretold, born to a mortal mother.
  • The Silver Branch The token of the Otherworld. This site takes its name from it.

Sources

Medieval manuscript. Written down by Irish scholars between the eighth and seventeenth centuries.

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