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DUAN SECOND. 247
nightly eye looked in, and saw the tossing amis
of Strina-dona.
" Wrathful the brothers frowned. Their
flaming eyes, in silence, met. They turned
away. They struck their shields. Their hands
were trembling on their swords. They rushed
into the strife of heroes, for long-haired Strina-
dona.
" Corcul-suran fell in blood. On his isle,
raged the strength of his father. He turned
Colgorm, from I-thorno, to wander on all the
winds. In Crathmo-craulo's rocky field, he
dwelt by a foreign stream. Nor darkened the
king alone, that beam of light was near, the
daughter of echoing Tormoth, white-armed
Strina-dona." '^
X The continuation of this episode is just now in my
hands; but the language is so ditferent from^ and the ideas
so unworthy of, Ossian, that I have rejected it, as an interpo-
lation by a modern bard.
nightly eye looked in, and saw the tossing amis
of Strina-dona.
" Wrathful the brothers frowned. Their
flaming eyes, in silence, met. They turned
away. They struck their shields. Their hands
were trembling on their swords. They rushed
into the strife of heroes, for long-haired Strina-
dona.
" Corcul-suran fell in blood. On his isle,
raged the strength of his father. He turned
Colgorm, from I-thorno, to wander on all the
winds. In Crathmo-craulo's rocky field, he
dwelt by a foreign stream. Nor darkened the
king alone, that beam of light was near, the
daughter of echoing Tormoth, white-armed
Strina-dona." '^
X The continuation of this episode is just now in my
hands; but the language is so ditferent from^ and the ideas
so unworthy of, Ossian, that I have rejected it, as an interpo-
lation by a modern bard.
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| Early Gaelic Book Collections > Ossian Collection > Poems of Ossian > Volume 1 > (265) |
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| Description | Volume the first. |
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| Shelfmark | Oss.88 |
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| Description | "Translated by James Macpherson ; to which are prefixed dissertations of the aera and poems of Ossian". (Oss.86 unopened.) |
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| Shelfmark | Oss.86-89 |
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| Description | Selected books from the Ossian Collection of 327 volumes, originally assembled by J. Norman Methven of Perth. Different editions and translations of James MacPherson's epic poem 'Ossian', some with a map of the 'Kingdom of Connor'. Also secondary material relating to Ossianic poetry and the Ossian controversy. |
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| Description | Selected items from five 'Special and Named Printed Collections'. Includes books in Gaelic and other Celtic languages, works about the Gaels, their languages, literature, culture and history. |
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