Blaí Briugu

{{short description |Warrior in Irish mythology}}

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Blaí Briugu (Blaí the Landholder or Hospitaller) is an Ulster warrior in the Ulster Cycle of Irish Mythology. He was wealthy and kept a hostel, and had a geis which required him to sleep with any woman who stayed there unaccompanied.{{Cite book|title=Kelten : Versuch einer Gesamtdarstellung ihrer Kultur|last=Birkhan, Helmut.|date=1997|publisher=Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften|isbn=3700126093|location=Wien|oclc=37455517}} When Brig Bretach, wife of Celtchar, stayed there on her own, he slept with her (as required by his geis) and for that Celtchar killed him.{{Cite web|url=https://celt.ucc.ie/published/T301037.html|title=The Death-Tales of the Ulster Heroes|website=celt.ucc.ie|access-date=2019-06-20}}

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Category:Ulster Cycle