Ossian Collection > Fingal

io8 Ihe BATTLE of LORA:
ter of my love; come fro m^ thy hall, Bofmlna *,
maid of flreamy Morven ! Narthmor, take the
Iteeds f of the ilrangers, and attend the daughter
of Fingal : let her hid the king of Sora to our
feaft, to Selma's fliaded wall. — Offer him, O
Bofmlna, the peace ot heroes, and the wealth of
generous Aldo : our youths are far diftant, and age
is on our trembling hands.
Shi: came to the hofl: of Erragon, like a beam
of light to a cloud. — In her right hand flione an
arrow of gold: and in her left a fparkling fliell,
the ilgn of A'lorven's peace.
Erragon briglitened in her prefence as a rock,
before the fiidden beams of the fun ; when they
lUlie from a broken cloud, divided by the roaring
wind.
Son of the diiiant Sora, began the mildly
blufhing maid, come to the ivdH of Alorven's
king, to Selma's fiiaded walls. Take the peace
of heroes, O warrior, and let the dark fword reft
l:y thy fide. — And if thou chufeft the wealth of
kings, hear the words of the generous Aldo. —
He gives to Erragon an hundred {Ittds, the chil-
dren of the rein ; an hundred maids from diflant
lands ; an hundred hawks with fluttering wings,
that fly acrofs theflvy. An hundred girdles :|: fliall
alfo
* Bof-nihina, foft and tender hand. She v/as the
voungeft of Fingars children.
f Thefe were probably horfes taken in the uiciirfions
of the Caledonians Into the Roman prov ince, which feems
to be intimated in the phrafe of the/? W^ of Jirangers.
X Sanc"tified girdles, 'till very lately, were kept in
many faniilie.s \n the north of Scotland ; they were bound
abcut women in labour, and were fiippofed to alleviate
their pains, and to accelerate the birth. They v/ere
impielTed withfeveral myflical figures, and the ceremo-
ny of binding them about the woman's walfl, v/as ac-
companied