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PREFACE.
the combat is defcribcd : Swaran is overcome,
bound and delivered over as a prifoner to the care
of OfTian and Gaul the fon of Morni ; Fingal, his
younger Tons, and Ofcar, ftill purfue the enenfy.
The epifode of Orla a chief of Lochlin, who was
mortally wounded in the battle, is introduced.
Fingal, touched with the death of Orla, orders
the purfuit to be difcontinued ; and calling his fons
together, he is informed that Ryno, the youngeft
of them, was killed. He laments his death, hears
the frory of Lamdarg and Gelchoffa, and returns
towards the place where he had left Swaran.
Carril, who had been fent by Cuchullin to con-
gratulate Fingal on his victory, comes in the
mean time to Ofiian. The converfation of the
two poets clofes the adion of the fourth day.
* Night comes on. Fingal gives a feafl to
his army, at which Swaran is prefent. The king
commands Ullin his bard to give ihcjong of peace ;
a cuftom always obferved at the end of a war. Ul-
iin relates the a6lions of Trenm.or, great grandfa-
ther to Fingal, in Scandinavia, and his marriage
with Inibacca, the daughter of a king of Lochlin
who was anceftor to Swaran; which confideraticn,
together with his being brother to Agandecca,
with v/hom Fingal was in love in his youth, in-
duced the king to releafe him, and permit him
to return, with the remains of his army, into
Lochlin, upon his promife of never returning to
Ireland in a hoftile manner. The night is fpent
in fettling Sv/aran's departure, in lbn2;s of bards,
ar.d
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