Éber Finn

In the Lebor Gabála Érenn–style narratives Éber Finn appears as one of the sons of Míl Espáine, leaders of the Milesian people who sail from an ancestral homeland in the Iberian Peninsula to Ireland. After an initial landing and a storm conjured by the Tuatha Dé Danann that forces a temporary withdrawal, the Milesians land again, march to Tara and fight the Battle of Tailtiu. Following that campaign Amergin adjudicates a division of kingship: Érimón rules the northern half and Éber Finn the southern. A year after Tailtiu, Éber disputes the division, fights Érimón at Airgetros, is defeated and killed; thereafter the High Kingship alternates between their descendants. Medieval chronologies place his reign in remote antiquity (e.g., Geoffrey Keating: 1287 BC; Annals of the Four Masters: 1700 BC) as part of the pseudo‑historical king‑lists.

Medieval and bardic sources provide no sustained physical description. The epithet 'Finn'/'Find' is Old/Middle Irish for 'fair' or 'bright' and functions as a descriptive epithet ('the Fair'); aside from a bardic allusion praising his 'bright race' and a phrase depicting a 'stately figure, cool in conflict' there are no detailed attributes (height, clothing, supernatural marks) attested in the supplied material.

The supplied sources describe Éber Finn in political, martial, and genealogical terms: leader of an invasion, warrior who fought in key battles, co‑ruler after a division of Ireland, and progenitor of named sons whose line figures in later succession. The corpus supplied attributes to him social and military agency and foundational dynastic importance; the provided texts do not ascribe personal supernatural powers, magical faculties, or occult abilities to Éber himself.