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

TEMOR A:
AN EPIC POEM.
TlfE ARGUMEHT,
Oflian, after a fhert addrefs to the harp- of Cona, defcribes
the arrangement of both armies on either fide of the ri-
ver Lubar. Fingal gives the command to Fillan : but, at
the fame time, orders Gaul, the fon of Morni, who had
been vs^ounded in the hand in the preceding battle, to aC-
fift him with his counfel. The army of the Fir-boig ia-
commanded by Foldath. The general onfet is defcribed
The great adions of Fillan. He kills Rothmar and Cul-
min. But when Fillan conquers, in one wing, Foldath
prefles hard on the other. He wounds Dermid, the foa
of Duthno, and puts the whole wing to flight. Dermid
deiibetates with himfelf, and, at laft, refolves to put 9
(top to the progrefs of Foldath, by engaging him in fm-
gle combat. When the two chiefs were approaching to-
wards one another, Fillan came fuddenly to the relief of
Dermid ; engaged Foldath, and killed him. The beha-
viour of Malthos towards the fallen Foldath. Fillan puts
the whole army of the Fir-bolg to flight. The book clo-
fes with an addrefs to Clatho, the mother of that hero,
BOOK V.
THOU dweller between the fhields that hang
on high in Ofllan's hall,, defcend. from thjr
place