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

NOTES ON CATH-LODA. 205
latter This diftindion is fo much obferved throughout the
poems of Ofli;in, that there can be no doubt, that be fol-
lowed the real manners of both nations in his own time-
At the clofe of the fpeech of Fingal, there is a great part of
the original loft.
' The fword of Fingal, fo called from its maker, Luno of
Lochlin.
'' The helmet of Swaran. The behaviour of Fingal is al-
ways confiftent with that gencrofity of fpirit which belongs
to a hero. He takes no advantage of a foe difarmed.
' Conban-carglas, from feeing the helmet of Swaran
bloody in the hands of Fingal, conjeftnred, that the hero
was killed. A part of the original is loft. It appears, how-
ever, from the fequel of the poem, that the daughter of
Torcul-torno did not long furvive her furprife, occafioned
by the fuppofed death of her lover. The defcription of the
airy hall of Loda (which is fuppofed to be the fame wdth
that of Odin, the deity of Scandinavia) is more pidturefque
and defcriptive, than any in the Edda, or other works of
the northern Scalderg.
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