In Irish mythologyEber Finn (Heber, Eibhear) was a son of Míl Espáine who participated in the Milesian conquest of Ireland. Although many of the manuscripts containing texts relating to Irish mythology have failed to survive, and much more material was probably never committed to writing, there is enough remaining to enable the identification of four distinct, if overlapping, cycles: the Mythological Cycle, The Ulster Cycle, the Fenian Cycle and the... In Irish mythology the Milesians or Sons of Míl Espáine were the final inhabitants of Ireland, representing the Goidelic Celts. ...
Once conquered the island was divided between Eber and his brother Eremon, Eber taking the southern half and Eremon the north. Eber was unhappy with this division, feeling that his half was inferior, and went to war against his brother, but was defeated and killed.
The High Kingship of Ireland was a pseudohistorical construct of the eighth century AD, a projection into the distant past of a political entity that did not become reality until the ninth century. ... Signature page from the Annals of the Four Masters Entry for A.D. 432 The Annals of the Four Masters or the Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters are a chronicle of medieval Irish history. ... Seathrún Céitinn, known in English as Geoffrey Keating, was a 17th century Irish clergyman, poet and historian. ...
According to tradition, Eber died at the age of 464 when Jacob was 20.
There is a legend that the Avars were descendants of Eber through children of Abraham and his third (or second, as the Talmud identifies her with Hagar) wife Keturah.
The origin of the names for Eber and the Hebrews, as used in European Christian languages, derived from Judæo-Aramaic ×¢×ר Ê¿Äá¸er and ×¢××¨× Ê¿Iá¸rÄy, as spoken in the Roman province of Judaea and by those Jews who escaped the province's destruction.