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Ossian

Legendary Gaelic hero and bard, claimed by both Ireland and Scotland. He is sometimes represented as the son of Finn Mac Cumhaill, in about AD 250, and as having lived to tell the tales of Finn and the Ulster heroes to St Patrick, in about 400. The publication in 1760 of James Macpherson's poems, attributed to Ossian, made Ossian's name familiar throughout Europe.

Ossian

Semi-mythical Gaelic bard whose works, allegedly translated by James Macpherson (1736-1796), influenced the early Romantic movement. Ossian's works were in fact by Macpherson, drawing on ancient sources. Franz Schubert set nine Ossian songs 1815-17.
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