`Ambitious to join the #Fianna, #Abarta came to them pretending to be a lazy man in search of a job. #Fionn Mac Cumhaill inexplicably agreed to take him into service, calling him Gialla Deacair, or “lazy servant.” Abarta tricked Fianna into mounting his apparently frail old horse and carried them away to the #Otherworld. There he held them hostage until Fionn, after many magical adventures and battles, located and freed them. After this crime, Fionn did not offer Abarta membership in his band.`
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
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In Irish mythology, Abhartach was a cruel tyrant dwarf who was slain by Fionn Mac Cumhail. After his burial, he returned from the dead to…
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