#BookologyThursday: `#Niamh had fallen in love with #Oisin, who was overtaken on first sight with desire for this lovely woman from the #Celtic #Otherworld. Without thinking that time passes more slowly in the #Otherworld than in our own or even a look back #Oisin went with the Princess of the Golden Hair on her fine white horse with golden reins over seas and plains and mountains far out to sea on a magical island, Tir Tairngiri (“land of promise”).
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`