Ossian Collection > Temora, an ancient epic poem, in eight books

A POEM. 189
To Tiirthor's plain Flngal returned. Fair rofc the beam of the
eaft. It flione on the fpoils of LochHn in the hand of the king.
From her cave came forth, in her beauty, the daughter of Tor-
cul-torno. She gathered her hair from wind ; and v.ildly raifcd
her fong. The fong of Lulan of fhells, where once her father
dwelt.
She faw Starno's bloody fhield. Gladnefs rofe, a light, on her
face. She faw the cleft helmet of Swaran *; fhe fhrunk, darken-
ed, from the king. " Art thou fallen, by thy hundred ftreams,
O love of Conban-carglas ! "
U-THORNO, that rifeft in waters; on whofe fide are the meteors
of night ! I behold the dark moon defcending behind thy echoing
woods. On thy top dwells the mifty Loda, the houfe of the fpi-
rits of men. — In the end of his cloudy hall bends forward Cruth-
loda of fwords. His form is dimly feen, amidfl his wavy mift.
His right-hand is on his fl:iield : in his left is the half-viewlefs
, fhell. The roof of his dreadful hall is marked with nightly
fires.
* Conban-carglas, from feeing the hel-
met of Swaran blooily in the han Js of Fin-
gal, conje(ftur:J, that that hero v/as kill-
ed. — A part of the original is loft. It ap-
pears, however, from the fequel of the
poem, that the daughter of Torcul-twrno
^id not long furvive her furprize, cccsfion-
ed by the fuppofed death of her lover. —
The defcription of the airy hall of Loda
(which is fuppofed to be the fame with that
of Odin, the deity of Scandinavia) is more
pidlurefque and defcriptive, than any in the
EdJa, or other works of the northern Scol-
ders.
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