Ossian: Fingal

 Ossian ist ein angeblich altgälisches Epos aus der keltischen Mythologie. Diese „Gesänge des Ossian“ hat tatsächlich der Schotte James Macpherson (1736–1796) geschrieben. Als namensgebendes Vorbild für die Titelfigur suchte er sich Oisín aus, den Sohn des Fionn mac Cumhail. Inhalt der Gesänge sind episch dargestellte Schlachten und die Schicksale auserwählter edler Helden, die sich meist um die Rettung von Königreichen bemühen. (Wikipedia)

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F I N G A L, AN ANCIENT EPIC POEM.
In SIX BOOKS.  BOOK I.

Cuchullin sat by Tura's wall by the tree of the rustling leaf. — His spear leaned against the mossy rock. His shield lay by him on the grass. As he thought of mighty Carbar *,

a hero whom he flew in war ; the scout of the ocean came Moran the son of
Fithil.
Rise, said the youth, Cuchullin, rise ; I see
the ships of Swaran. 

Cuchullin, many are the
foe : many the heroes of the darkrlling sea.
Moran! relied the blue-eyed chief, thou
ever trembled: fon of Fithil : Thy fears have
much increased the foe. Perhaps it is the king
of the lonely hills coming to aid me on green Ullin's plains.
I saw their chief, says Moran, tall as a rock
of ice. His spear is like that blasted fir. His [...]

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*Cuchullin the fon of Semo and grandfon to Calch-
bat a druld celebrated in tradition for his wifdom and
valour. Cuchullin when very young married Bragela
the daughter of Sorglan, and pafiing over into Ireland,
lived for fome rime with Connal, grandfon by a daugh-
ter to Congal the petty king of Ullrer. His v/ifdom and
valour in a Ihort time gained him fuch reputarion, that
in the minority of Cormac the fupreme king of Ireland,
he was chofen guardian to the young king, and fole ir.a-
nager of the war againfi; Svvaran king of Lochiin. After
a leries of great actions he was killed in battle fomewhere
in Gonnaught, in the twenty- feventh year of his age.
He was fo remarkable for his ftrength, that to defciibe
a ftrong n;an it has paired Into a pioverb, " He has the
ftrength of Cuchullin." 

* Cairbar or Cairbre fignifies a ftrong; man.
•f Cuchullin having previous intelligence of the invafion

intended by Sv>aran, fent fcouts all ovey the coaft
of Ullin or Ullter, to give early notice of the firll; ap-
pearance of the enemy, at the fame lime that he fent
Munan the fon of Stirn.al to implore the a{ri(lir)c'e of Fin-
gal. He himfelf collected the flower of the Irilh youth
TO Tura, a ccdtle on the coaft, to ll:op the progrefs of
the enemy till Fingal fhould arrive from Scotland.' We
inay conclude from CuchuHin's applying fo early for
foreign aid, that the Irll;i were not then fo numerous as
they have fmce been ; which is a great prefumption a-
galnlt the high Antiquities of that people. We have
the tefi-lmony of Tacitus that one legion only was thought
fufficient, in the time of Agricola, to reduce the whole
ifland under the Roman yoke ; which would not pro-
bablv have been the cafe, had the iiland been inhabited
for any number of centuries before.
:j; Moran fignifies many ; and Firhil, or rather Fili,
an inferior hard.
Ij Fingal the fon of Comhal and Morna the daughter
of 1 haddu His grandfather was Trathal, and great
grandfather Trenmor, both of whom are often mention-
ed in the poem.