Ossian Collection > Fingal

POEM.
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But Frothal, Sora's battling king, fits in fadnels beneath a tree.
The hoft fpreads around Carric-thura. He looks towards the walls
with rage. He longs for the blood of Cathulla, who, once, over-
came the king in war. When Annjr reigned * in Sora, the fa-
ther of car-borne Frothal, a blaft rofe on the fea, and carried Frothal
to Iniftore. Three days he feafted in Sarno's halls, and faw the flow
rolling eyes of Comala. He loved her, in the rage of youth, and
ruflied to feize the white-armed maid. Cathulla met the chief. The
gloomy battle rofe. Frothal is bound in the hall : three days he
pined alone. On the fourth, Sarno fent him to his fliip, and here-
turned to his land. But wrath darkened in his foul againfl the noble
Cathulla. When Annir's flone -j- of fame arofe, Frothal came in his
ftrength. The battle burned round Carric-thura, and Sarno's moffy
walls.
Morning rofe on Iniftore. Frothal flruck his dark-brown
fliield. His chiefs ftarted at the found; they flood, but their ct^s
were turned to the fea. They faw Fiagal coming in his ftreng^tli,;
and firft the noble Thubar fpoke.
Who comes like the flag of the mountain, with all his herd be-
hind him ? Frothal, it is a foe ; I fee his forward fpear. Perhaps it
is the king of Morven, Fingal the firfl of men. His adlions are well
known onGormal; the blood of his foes is in Starno's halls. Shall
I a{k the peace ^ of kings ? He is like the thunder of heaven.
* Annir wtis alfo the father of Erragon, f That is, after the death of Annir. To
who was king, after the tleath of his- brotJier ered the fione of one's fame, was, in
Frothal. The dea^th of Erragon is the other . words, ^ to .fay that -the perfon was
fabjedl o( iU battle ef Lora, a poem in this dead,
colleclion. J Honourable terms of peace.
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