Ossian Collection > Report of the Committee of the Highland Society of Scotland, appointed to inquire into the nature and authenticity of the poems of Ossian

POEMS OF OSSIAN. 93
mentioned NO. of the Appendix, p. 285. Three of
the poems in this collection the Committee thinks it
will be fatisfaclory to the Society, as well as to the
public, to infert here, as the title of the two firfl
bears them to be the compofition of Offian, and
that of the lad afcribes it to Fergus the Bard, the
brother of Offian.
A Houdir so Ossin. *
Is fadda noeht ni nelli fruim
Is fadda lwiym in nycheith ryir
In lay dew gay fadda yoth
Di bi lor fadda in lay de
Fadda lwiym gych lay ya dik
Ne mir fen di cleachta doimh
Gin deowir gin damych cath
Gin wea feylim clafs a lwith
Gin nenych gin thoill gin threire
Gir fronich crewi gin gnewe gray
Gin deilleith allamaib yoir
Wea gin neilli gin oill fley
Gin chin er fwrri na er felgi
In da cherd rey in royth mi veene
Gin dwlle in glaew no in gayth
* * * [one line not intelligible. 1
Gin
* In explanation of the particular orthography of this MS,- fee Dr Smiih's
account of it, in the Appendix, p. 300,