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ON THE FORMS OF OSSIAN.
Non retrocedat vir a viro
Hoc fuit viri fortis nobilitas diu
Semper debet amoris amicus virginum
Audax esse in fremitu armorum.
Hoc videtnr mihi re vera
Quod fata sequimur
Rarus transgreditur fata Parcarum
Non destinavi Ella3
De vitse exitu mese
Cum ego sanguincm semimortuus tegerem
Et naves in aquas protrusi
Passim impetravimus tum feris
Escam in Scotioe sinubus.
Hoc ridere me facit semper
Quod Balderi patris scamn?
Parata scio in aula
Bibemus cerevisiam brevi
Ex concavis crateribus craniorum
Non gemit vir fortis contra mortem
Magnifici m Odini domibus
Non venio disperabundis
Verbis ad Odini aulam.
Hie vellent nunc omnes
Filii Aslaugge gladiis
Amarum bellum excitare
Si exacte scirent
Calamitates nostras
Quern non pauci angues
Venenati me discerpunt
Matrem accepi meis
Filiis ita ut corda valeant.
Valde inclinatur ad hsereditatem
Crudele stat nocumentum a vipera
Anguis inhabitat aulam cordis

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Poems of Ossian
DescriptionTranslated by James Macpherson ; to which are prefixed a preliminary discourse and dissertation on the aera and poems of Ossian.
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Ossian Collection
DescriptionSelected 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.
Early Gaelic Book Collections
DescriptionSelected 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.