Ossian Collection > Report of the Committee of the Highland Society of Scotland, appointed to inquire into the nature and authenticity of the poems of Ossian

POEMS OF O.SSIAX. 2i
cordingly, that though the names of Fion, Offian,
and Qaul the fon of Morni *, were weil known
* See the Bruce, by John Barbour, publlfhed from a MS.
dated 1489, by J. Pinkerton. London, 1790. Buke 3. 1. 61.
70.
* Quhen that the Lord of Lorn faw
Hys men ftand off him ane fik aw,
That thai durft not follow the chafs
Rycht angry in his hert he was ;
And for wondyr that he fuld fvva
Stot them, hym ane but ma,
He faid, methink Marthoky^'s fo!i.
Right as Gol Mak Morn was won.
To haiff fra Fyngal his menyie,
Rycht fwa all h)\=; fra us has he'
In Kirk's edition of the -Pfalms of -David in .Gaelic, publiih-
ed at Edinburgh in 1684, the following is the author'* addrefij
^o his book.
* Imthigh a Dhuilleachain gu diin,
Le dan glan diagha duifg iad thai),
Cuir f ailte ar fonn fial nab fionn
Ar gbarbh chriocha is Infeabh Gall.'
That is,
* Little volume go boWy ^ -*h,
Roufe whom you reach to pi- i Godly ftraiiis ;
Hail the >Tcaerou3 land of Fingals iic.02?.
The Highland trafts and Ifles of Hebrides.*
William Dunbar, in the * Interlude of the Droichis,' Ever,
gr^.n, p. 259. 11. 3,
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