Ossian Collection > Morison's edition of the Poems of Ossian, the son of Fingal

FING AL:
AN ANCIENT EPIC POEM.
THE ARGUMENT.
Night comes on. Fingal gives afeaft to his army, at which
Swaran is ^jrefent. The king commands Ullin his bard
to give the fong of peace ; a cuftom always obferved at
the end of a war. Ullin relates the adions of Trenmor
great grandfather to Fingal, in Scandinavia, and his
marriage with Inibacca, the daughter of a king of Loch-
lin who was anceftor to Swaran ; which confideration,
together with his being brother to Agandccca, with whom
Fingal was in love in his youth, induced the king to re-
leafe him, and permit him to return, with the remains
of his army, into Lochlin, upon his promife of never re-
turning to Ireland in a hoftile manner. The night is
fpent in fettling Swaran's departure, in fongs of bards,
and in a converfation in which the ftory of Grumal is in-
troduced by Fingal. Morning comes. Swaran departs ;
Fingal goes on a hunting party, and finding Cuchullin in
the cave of Tura, comforts him, and fets fail, the next
day, for Scotland ; which concludes the poem.