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DAN an DEIRG*.
A CHEUD CHUID.
ft EUCH Dearg fan doire na aonar,
*S e 'g eifdeachd ri caoiran na coill ;
A Feuch
* Dun an Deirg is afcribed to the Bard Ullin, who was
fomewhat prior to Olfian, and feems from the following old
diftich, to have been always held in high eftimation :
" Gach dan gu dan an Deirg,
'S gach laoidh gu laoidh 'n Amadain mhoir."
In a diuertation on the authenticity of Offian's poems, pre-
fixed to the tranflation of this collection, which was publifh-
ed a few years ago, the ./Era in which Olfian lived, was fup-
pofed to be the end of the third, or beginning of the fourth
century, Heftor Boethitts, whofe hiftory, dedicated to
James IV. was publifhed in 1526, conje&ured that he lived
about a century late/*.
" Conjiciunt quidam in haec tempora {Scilicet tempora
quibus regnavit Eugenius Filius Fergufii 2di qui obiit A. 462. )
Finnanum filium Coèli, vulgo vocabulo Fyn mac Coul ; vi-
rum, uti ferunt, immani ftatura, (feptenum enim Cubitorum
hominem fuiffe narrant) Scotici fanguinis venatorià arte in-
fignem