Ossian Collection > Essay on the authenticity of the poems of Ossian

LITERALLY TRANSLATED. 347
That poured on the sighs of the sky, 260
Upon the mighty tribes of the Bolgi.
On every boss is a star of night :
Can-mathon, of unsuUied eye (beani ;)
Col-darna, from clouds arising;
Vloiche, in a robe of mist ; 265
Caon-callin, ghttering on a rock ;
Reuldura, on a blue wave in the west.
Half conceahng her light in the deep ;
Berthein, the bright eye of the mountains,
Looking down from a wood on the slope, 270
On the slow course of the hunter, as he travels*
Through the vale of showery gloom.
TRANSLATION,
glittering on a rock; laughing on its own blue wave,
Reldurath half-sinks its western light; the red eye of
Berthein looks, through a grove, on the hunter, as he re-
turns, by night,*
" redness" of Berthein's eye, are all interpolatiojis of Mr Mac-
phersoo.