Bran mac Febail sailed to Emain Ablach after a woman of the sídhe sang to him of an island without grief or death, where apple trees bore fruit and blossom together — but when his companions at last returned to Ireland, the first man who leapt ashore crumbled to ash as centuries caught up with him.
Bran mac Febail sailed across the western sea to Mag Mell after an Otherworld woman appeared at his court singing of the land without grief, sickness, or death. He and his company feasted there in timeless joy, but when one of his men leaped ashore upon returning to Ireland, he crumbled to ash — centuries had passed in the mortal world.
Manannán mac Lir rode his chariot across the waves to meet Bran mac Febail at sea during the Voyage of Bran, singing of how the ocean that terrified the mortals was to him a flowering plain, and prophesying the birth of his own son Mongán in the mortal world.
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