Here lies the tale of a prominent warrior in Ireland:
TírNaNóg,land of eternal youth.
A great warrior of the empire of Ireland encountered an astounding beauty of magnificence on his wandering journey.
The warrior is named Oisín
He learnt of her spirituality in state and of her name, Niamh. She belonged to a wondrous land of eternal youth called Tir na Nog.
She invites him to the majestic land of eternal youth, he had to consider leaving his family and loved ones without bidding them goodbyes.
There, they lead a wondrous life. He enjoys the pleasures of eternal youth with a foreleading glimpse of gaiety. The story does not end here.
Further on, after a notable amount of time has passed. He began to think of his home back in Irish earth, wanting to meet his loved ones at home.
This is where the story gets dark...
Oisín begged Niamh to let him return to Ireland, but she was reluctant. Although Oisín thought that only a few years had passed,it had in fact been 300 yearsback in Ireland, since, in the land of Tir Na Nog, time slowed down.
Eventually, Niamh saw how much Oisín missed his family. She agreed to let him return to Ireland to see them again. “Take my magical white horse,” she told him. “Do not get off this horse, and do not let your feet touch the ground, or else you will never be able to return to Tir Na Nog again.”
Oisín set off across seas on Niamh’s white horse and arrived in Ireland. When he got there, he could see that things had changed. The Fianna no longer hunted green hills, and the grand castle that once housed his family was crumbling and covered in ivy.
As he was searching for someone familiar in the green hills, Oisín came across some old men, who were having difficulty trying to move a huge rock. He leaned down from his horse to help them, but in doing so he lost his balance and fell from the horse.The moment Oisín touched Irish soil, he immediately aged the 300 years that he had missed in Ireland. An old, frail man, he asked the men he had stopped to help about his father Finn MacCool, and they told him that Finn had died many years before. Broken-hearted and many hundred years old, Oisín died soon after, but not before he shared legends and stories of Fianna, his father great Finn MacCool, and the magical land of eternal youth that is Tir Na Nog.
A tragic tale it was for Oisín, to lose touch of his companions who had long died. His misery and grief contributed a great deal to his death.